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Wayward heroes / Halldór Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by Phillip Roughton.
- Title
- Wayward heroes / Halldór 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 | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PT7511.L3 G4713 2016 | Off-site | ||
| c.2 | Text | Request in advance | PT7511.L3 G4713 2016 c.2 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Roughton, Philip
- Description
- 467 pages; 18 cm
- Uniform Title
- Gerpla. English
- Alternative Title
- Gerpla.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Adaptations
- Fiction
- Adventure fiction
- 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.).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780914671091
- 091467109X
- LCCN
- ^^2016027339
- OCLC
- 932385674
- SCSB-10850484
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library