839/.6934 20 PT7511.L3 S Independent People (: Sjálfstætt fólk) is an by Nobel laureate, originally published in two volumes in 1934 and 1935; literally the title means 'Self-standing [i.e. Self-reliant] folk'. It deals with the struggle of poor farmers in the early 20th century, only freed from in the last generation, and surviving on isolated in an inhospitable landscape. The novel is considered among the foremost examples of in Icelandic fiction in the 1930s. It is an indictment of, the cost of the self-reliant spirit to relationships, and itself. This book, along with several other major novels, helped Laxness win the in 1955. Sjálfstætt Fólk HljóðbókSjálfstætt Fólk GlærurContents • • • • Plot summary [ ] Independent People is the story of the sheep farmer Guðbjartur Jónsson, generally known in the novel as Bjartur of Summerhouses, and his struggle for independence. The 'first chapter summons up the days when the world was first settled, in 874 AD—for that is the year when the Norsemen arrived in Iceland, and one of the book's wry conceits is that no other world but Iceland exists. The book is set in the early decades of the twentieth century but. Independent People is a pointedly timeless tale. It reminds us that life on an Icelandic croft had scarcely altered over a millennium'.
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