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Þórarinn Eldjárn

Autore di The Blue Tower

30+ opere 61 membri 2 recensioni 2 preferito

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Fonte dell'immagine: By Ahjartar - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24511340

Opere di Þórarinn Eldjárn

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McSweeney's Issue 15 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2005) — Collaboratore — 455 copie
Out of the Blue: New Short Fiction from Iceland (2017) — Collaboratore — 22 copie

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Spændende beretning om den islandske Gudmundur Andréssons liv i Island i første halvdel af 1600-tallet, og om hvordan han pga. sine meninger og ikke mindst hans måde at sige og skrive dem på havner i som fange i Blåtårn på Københavns Slot.
Meget interessant og velskrevet tidsbillede af Island på den tid, og de magtkampe og intriger som Gudmundur bliver fanget i - ikke mindst pga sin egen store kæft!
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2810michael | 1 altra recensione | Mar 16, 2009 |
This is my Icelandic entry for Around the World for a Good Book. Set in the 16th century, The Blue Tower tells the life story of Gudmundur Andresson imprisoned in Denmark for crimes under the Great Edict against adultery and fornication (he not only violated the edict but also wrote against its legality!). Andresson narrates his own story from his prison cell, a story that basically says that the bastards will keep you down. Despite being highly intelligent, those of higher birth work to defeat Andresson at every turn. His sarcastic wit rarely wins him any friends either. After falling from the eponymous prison tower, Andresson's life changes and it is told in a short second part of letters to his friend in Iceland as he begins to have scholarly opportunities in Denmark. Don't get too happy though, because he dies shortly after in a plague. This was not the easiest book to read, but definitely a change of pace from what I usually choose to read, and educational at that.

"It is often the case with great men, that their descendants prove to be small, and all the smaller the more they try to stretch and crane themselves to the stature of their begetters." (p. 48)
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Opere
30
Opere correlate
2
Utenti
61
Popolarità
#274,234
Voto
½ 3.7
Recensioni
2
ISBN
18
Lingue
5
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