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Wayward heroes
- Title
- Wayward heroes / Halldor Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by Phillip Roughton.
- Author
- Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998
- Publication
- Brooklyn, New York : Archipelago Books, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 17-136 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Roughton, Philip
- Description
- 467 pages; 18 cm
- Uniform Title
- Gerpla. English
- Alternative Title
- Gerpla.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Adaptations.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "Published in 1952, Wayward Heroes is part of the body of works for which Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1955. It is a masterfully written tragicomedy about the oath-brothers Thorgeir and Thormod, inspired by the old Icelandic sagas Saga of the Sworn Brothers and Saga of Saint Olaf. The brothers fight for glory, raid for treasure, and seduce women against the backdrop of a new cult of Christianity. But where the old sagas depict their heroes as glorious champions, Laxness does the opposite. As Thormod avenges Thorgeir's death, he demonstrates the senselessness of violence and the endlessly cyclical nature of obsession"-- Provided by publisher.
- Language (note)
- Originally published in Icelandic as Gerpla (Reykjavík : Vaka-Helgafell, 1988. 4. útg.).
- Call Number
- JFC 17-136
- ISBN
- 9780914671091 (paperback)
- 091467109X (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2016027339
- OCLC
- 932385674
- Author
- Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998, author.
- Title
- Wayward heroes / Halldor Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by Phillip Roughton.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, New York : Archipelago Books, 2016.
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Originally published in Icelandic as Gerpla (Reykjavík : Vaka-Helgafell, 1988. 4. útg.).
- Added Author
- Roughton, Philip, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998. author. Wayward heroes Brooklyn, New York : Archipelago, 2016 9780914671107 (DLC) 2016037170
- Research Call Number
- JFC 17-136