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Gunnar Gunnarsson (1) (1889–1975)

Auteur de Le berger de l'avent

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74 oeuvres 425 utilisateurs 2 critiques 3 Favoris

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Novelist, poet, and dramatist, Gunnarsson was prolific in all the genres he chose, including the short story and historical novel. Like many other Icelandic writers, Gunnarsson spent a period in Copenhagen, returning to Iceland in 1939 and writing in both Danish and Icelandic. He is known as a afficher plus brilliant interpreter of Icelandic life, particularly that of its humble people, and as a writer of subtle psychological novels of romantic theme. The Black Cliffs (1939) is one of these, having to do with a young couple's involvement in a sensational murder case. The History of the Family at Borg (1912--14), translated as Guest the One-Eyed (1920), and the autobiographical The Church on the Mountain (1923--28) are Gunnarsson's best-known works. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Œuvres de Gunnar Gunnarsson

Le berger de l'avent (1936) — Auteur — 178 exemplaires
Oiseaux noirs (1929) 32 exemplaires
Frères jurés (1918) 24 exemplaires
Guest the One-Eyed [omnibus] (1954) 21 exemplaires
Salige er de enfoldige 13 exemplaires
Jon Arason (1930) 11 exemplaires
Vikivaki (1932) 10 exemplaires
Schiffe am Himmel (1952) 8 exemplaires
Livets Strand (1932) 6 exemplaires
Das Haus der Blinden 5 exemplaires
Ett riktigt manfolk 5 exemplaires
The Night and the Dream (1929) 5 exemplaires
Heiðaharmar 4 exemplaires
Saga borgarættarinnar 4 exemplaires
Varg i veum (1921) 4 exemplaires
Jord : Roman 3 exemplaires
Dyret med Glorien 3 exemplaires
Brandur paa Bjarg (1947) 3 exemplaires
Sagaøen (Island) 3 exemplaires
Ships in the sky 3 exemplaires
Fjallkirkjan 3 exemplaires
Sjælemesse : Roman 3 exemplaires
Il pastore d'Islanda — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Dimmufjöll 2 exemplaires
Drengen 2 exemplaires
Bílý Kristus 2 exemplaires
Salumessa 2 exemplaires
Strand des Lebens (1949) 2 exemplaires
Graamand (1955) 2 exemplaires
Sonate ved Havet 2 exemplaires
Den Uerfarne Rejsende 2 exemplaires
Smaa Historier 2 exemplaires
Verdens Glæder 1 exemplaire
Vaisseaux dans le ciel (1942) 1 exemplaire
Fimm Fraeknisogur 1 exemplaire
Fjandvinir 1 exemplaire
Smaa skuespil 1 exemplaire
Hvide-Krist. Roman 1 exemplaire
Die Eindalsaga (1959) 1 exemplaire
Der Knabe 1 exemplaire
Brimhenda 1 exemplaire
Ringen 1 exemplaire
Fjallkirkjan I 1 exemplaire
Fjallkirkjan II 1 exemplaire
Fjallkirkjan III 1 exemplaire

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Date de naissance
1889-05-18
Date de décès
1975-11-21
Lieu de sépulture
Viðey, Iceland
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Iceland
Lieu de naissance
Valthjofsstadur, Iceland
Lieu du décès
Reykjavík, Iceland
Lieux de résidence
Denmark
Professions
novelist
short-story writer
poet

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Ein Klassiker - lebhaft wird beschrieben, wie ein Überleben auch bei widrigen Wetterverhältnissen möglich ist - wenn man sich in der Natur (und in einem bestimmten Landstrich) gut auskennt. Am Rande wird auch noch ein Einblick in das Alltagsleben auf Island Ende des 19. Jh. gewährt. Die vergleichsweise moderne Sprache (der Übersetzung) kommt dem Lesefluss zu Gute.
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ahzim | 1 autre critique | Jun 14, 2013 |
Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889-1975) was born and raised in poverty, on a farm in northeastern Iceland. (Interestingly, he was born the same year as Þórbergur Þórðarson.)He went to school and achieved fame as a writer in Denmark. He returned to Iceland with his wife and family in the 1930's, and lived there the remainder of his life. Gunnarsson is buried on the island of Videy, so that he (a Lutheran) and his wife Franzisca (a Catholic) could rest together in consecrated ground.

This lovely little book (which could be considered a novella or short story), is beguilingly simple. It tells the story of shepherd Benedikt who has found meaning in the Advent season, for some twenty-seven years, by hiking alone to the high mountains to retrieve sheep that had not been found at the autumn in-gathering. Not exactly alone, however, for each year he is accompanied by his faithful friends: his dog Leo ("Pope Leo"), and his bell wether sheep, Gnarly. (To my surprise I learned that the etymology of bell wether is a sheep with a bell around its neck and/or a castrated male sheep.) This year Benedikt's journey is not quite the solitary pilgrimage that he anticipated, for a rough, inconsiderate group of men from a nearby farm join him in order to take advantage of his skill and generosity. A series of raging snowstorms bring Benedikt, Leo and Gnarly to the point of frozen starvation, but throughout the journey Benedikt finds that kindness given returns to him. His musings are philosophical...

" A journey like this is a sort of poem with rhymes and splendid words. In the blood it turned into a poem and, so to speak, you could learn it by heart like a poem. And besides some impulse drove a man back here again and again to see if everything remained unchanged. And it was unchanged--strange and unattainable and at the same time friendly and intimate and indispensable."

On his journey, much of it alone with Leo and Gnarly, Benedikt ponders the mysteries of life and death. He considers the responsibility of love: he must care for his animals not only in their lives, but also their deaths. When the time comes, and his animals are no longer able to function, he will have to end their lives.

"After all, to a certain extent, all animals were sacrificial beasts--but was not all of life a sacrifice? When it was lived in the right manner? Was not this the key to the riddle, that the power of growth is a power within..."

The appealing quality of Benedikt is that he sees beyond himself and understands his connection to simple animals, to other people, to things he can't see or know:

" ...there was the prospect within the next few days of saving a few sheep from death by hunger, and so of being useful to his own parish and, as well, to all mankind and to all the universe."

This is a simple tale...at first I thought might be a children's story. But it speaks more to an older audience: people who have loved, have lost, have hoped, have learned to see beyond themselves. Written at a time when it seemed that the whole world was in danger of holocaust, this short book offered then, and offers now a touching dose of hope.
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Œuvres
74
Membres
425
Popularité
#57,429
Évaluation
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Critiques
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ISBN
38
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