As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation: the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people

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World Light

As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation: the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poetâ€™s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness.
As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this magnificently humane novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olafâ€™s ambition drives him onwardâ€“and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible womenâ€“World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.

Country	USA
Author	Halldor Laxness
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Laxness, Halldor/ Magnusson, Magnus (TRN)/ Birkerts, Sven (INT)
EAN	9780375727573
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	0375727574
Label	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
MPN	9780375727573
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	624
PartNumber	9780375727573
PublicationDate	2002-10-08
Publisher	Vintage
ReleaseDate	2002-10-08
Studio	Vintage

World Light