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Chargement... Justice Undone (1986)par Thor Vilhjalmsson
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Now available in English, this Nordic Prize winner for 1988 is a story of incest and infanticide set in the remote hinterlands of 19th-century Iceland. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)839.6934Literature German and related languages Other Germanic literatures Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Icelandic, Faroese literatures Modern West Scandinavian; Modern Icelandic Modern Icelandic fiction 1900-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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The plot underlies though thorny unanswered questions about morality and conformity, magnificent descriptions of the Icelandic countryside, references to folk tales and sagas, portrayals of the brutal life led by peasants oppressed by the 'nobles', and unforgettably vivid dreams. And it seems almost as if we're being shown the essence of the characters, who are anything but one-dimensional.
It was the writing style that I found most difficult to adjust to. Vilhjalmsson writes in a fairly conventional straightforward way when dealing with concrete matters like the hearing in court and at other times employs devices that aren't new to me: He's elliptical, uses sentence fragments, leaves unclear for awhile what a phrase or sentence refers to. But his diction is sometimes so odd that it stopped me dead in my tracks--a voice like 'a stalactite' is an example. On stopping to re-read such a phrase though I would usually see that it was in fact metaphorical--in this instance, for a singer's groping for and then grasping of a very low note--and in the end I enjoyed being jolted by the way words were used.
A rich and rewarding book. ( )