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The Great Weaver From Kashmir (Hardcover)
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The Great Weaver From Kashmir (Hardcover)
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The Great Weaver from Kashmir is Nobel Prize winner Halldor
Laxness' first major novel, the book that propelled Icelandic
literature into the modern world. Shortly after World War One,
Steinn Ellioi, a young philosopher-poet dandy, leaves the physical
and cultural confines of Iceland's shores for mainland Europe,
seeking to become "the most perfect man on earth." His journey
leads us through a huge range of moral, philosophical, religious,
political, and social realms, from hedonism to socialism to
aestheticism to Benedictine monasticism, exploring, as Laxness puts
it, "the far-ranging variety in the life of a soul, with the swings
on a pendulum oscillating between angel and devil." Upon his return
to Iceland, Steinn finds himself more conflicted than before, torn
between love of the beauty and traditions of his homeland, longing
and regret for his great adolescent love, Dilja, and his newfound
monastic ideal, forcing him to make choices with fateful
consequences. The Great Weaver from Kashmir is as much a domestic
parlor drama as it is a novel of ideas; it can be seen as the
downward spiral of an antihero or an exploration of idealism and
loss; it is at once an inward-looking and daring early novel and a
modern epic spun by a superior craftsman. Published when Laxness
was only twenty-five years old, The Great Weaver from Kashmir's
radical experimentation created a stir in Iceland. Appearing in
English now for the first time, The Great Weaver is much more than
a first major work by a literary master--it is a remarkable
modernist classic written literally on the cultural and
geographical fringes of modern Europe.
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