After tra­vel­lin­ging around Ice­land in ten days in July 2006 I also wan­ted to explore its lite­ra­ture. So I deci­ded to read the most famous Ice­lan­dic aut­hor, 1955 Nobel Price for Lite­ra­ture win­ner Hall­dór Lax­ness (see Wiki­pe­dia entry). Many novels were stan­ding in that Reyk­ja­vik book­shop, with full rows in the books­helf of English and Ger­man trans­la­ti­ons. I chose Inde­pen­dent People as a start, the story of a she­pherd, strugg­ling for inde­pen­dence, sacri­fi­cing even some family mem­bers for that dream.

I see some simi­la­ri­ties to Ibsens „Brand”, alt­hough the main cha­rac­ters are quite different.

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