This new approach is manifest in three novels: Salka Valka (1931-1932 English trans. Writing under the pseudonym Halldor Laxness, he penned “fiction depicting the hard living conditions of the lower classes.”Many of his later writings continued to reflect political, religious, and social themes.Īfter three years in the United States, Laxness returned to a study of his people from a leftist point of view. On the subject of his conversion into Catholicism, he wrote the great introspective novel Vefarinn mikli fra Kasmir (1927 The Great Weaver of Cashmere, 1927), the expressionistic, surrealistic manner of this work marking an important turning point in Icelandic prose style. After making his debut at 16 with a novel on the neo-Romantic back-to-nature theme, Laxness soon embarked on travels in Scandinavia and Germany. In his late teens, Laxness wrote his first novel, Barn Natturunnar (“A Child of Nature”).
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