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Cargando... Under the Glacier (1968)por Halldór Laxness
  
Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |   ) Birta | Sep 9, 2022 | Despite being absurd and funny, this story throws a lot of big ideas at the reader without much explanation (because we experience this all through an unnamed narrator that was chosen because of his lack of experience). So the reader has to muddle through and try to make sense of it all with the narrator. I also recommend reading the Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne before reading this because Laxness definitely took inspiration from that story. To me, the story also reminded me of Candide (as others have said) because the way that Laxness presents his story parallels Voltaire in that there are big ideas being presented through a naive narrator that's just trying to make the best out of his situation. In some ways, it's similar to Cat's Cradle too because of the absurdities presented by some of the characters. The biggest negative about this book is that I don't feel that I understood everything properly, which is a difficult thing to admit. I plan to return to it once I've read a Journey to the Center of the Earth and maybe reread Candide and Cat's Cradle. Overall, I enjoyed the book. I found a lot of it to be funny. I liked a lot of the characters and it was well written. (  ) neilstcyr | Jul 26, 2022 |  ) stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 |  ) gerrit-anne | Apr 24, 2019 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn?fells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress. What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced “ooh-a,” which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept? Piling improbability on top of improbability, Under the Glacier overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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