April. 23 Halldór Laxness

活動二、世界書香日--「紀念大文豪」書展
為緬懷於4月23日誕生或辭世的作家，特整理出下列作家的作品，於總圖書館一樓展出，以供眾瀏覽閱讀。
莎士比亞(William Shakespeare, April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616)

賽凡提斯(Miguel de Cervantes, Sep. 29, 1547 – April 23, 1616)

朱熹(1130 – April 23, 1200 (宋慶元六年三月初九))

加爾西拉索(Inca Garcilaso de al Vega, April 12, 1539 – April 23 1616)

華茲華斯(William Wordsworth, April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850)


納博科夫(Vladimir Nabokov, April 23, 1899 – July 2, 1977)

拉克斯內斯(Halldor Laxness, April 23, 1902 – Feb. 8, 1998)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness

This was followed by the four-part novel Heimsljós (World Light, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940), which was "… consistently regarded by many critics as his most important work."^[17] It was loosely based on the life of Magnús Hjaltason Magnusson, a minor Icelandic poet of the late 19th century.^[18]

Vintage Books & Anchor Books

“I'm an extremely wealthy man. I own the sky. I have invested all my capital in the sun. I'm not bad-tempered, as you seem to imagine, nor do I bear grudges. But like all wealthy men, I'm a little frightened of losing my fortune.”
―from WORLD LIGHT (1937-1940) by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness

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 poet’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 Olaf’s ambition drives him onward–and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women–World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/world-light-by-halldo…/

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