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I highly recommend the novel “Independent People” by Halldór Laxness, which your comment reminded me of.
by gyomu 3y ago
I highly recommend the novel “Independent People” by Halldór Laxness, which your comment reminded me of.
- rurban 3y agoI'd rather recommend the light hearted movie "Virgin Mountain", which is not that drastic. And in the german ARD Mediathek.
- mattbee 3y agoI really liked this novel! A lot of what people say about Icelanders I assume comes from this caricature of an independent-minded (or uncompromisingly stupid) homesteader. There is sheep and starvation, bathetic death, ambitions ruined over and over while the 20th century grinds on around our hero. 600 pages. Did I say sheep? There's a lot of sheep. Pages of chasing them, eating them, buying them, driving them around. If that doesn't sell it to you I don't know what will.