Independent People
Independent People: An Epic (Icelandic: Sjálfstætt fólk) is a novel by Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, originally published in two volumes in 1934 and 1935. It deals with the struggle of poor Icelandic farmers in the early 20th century, only freed from debt bondage in the last generation, and surviving on isolated crofts in an inhospitable landscape.
First edition (volume 1) | |
| Author | Halldór Laxness |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sjálfstætt fólk |
| Translator | J. A. Thompson |
| Country | Iceland |
| Language | Icelandic |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Vintage Books |
Publication date | 1934 (Part I), 1935 (Part II) |
Published in English | 1946 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 544 pp (first English edition) |
| ISBN | 0-679-76792-4 |
| OCLC | 34967984 |
| 839/.6934 20 | |
| LC Class | PT7511.L3 S52313 1997 |
The novel is considered among the foremost examples of social realism in Icelandic fiction in the 1930s. It is an indictment of materialism, the cost of the self-reliant spirit to relationships, and capitalism itself. This book, along with several other major novels, helped Laxness win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.
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