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World Light
novel by Laxness
Also known as: “Heimsljós”
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discussed in biography
- In Halldór Laxness
…economic independence; and Heimsljós (1937–40; World Light), a four-volume novel about the struggles of a peasant poet. These novels criticized Icelandic society from a socialist viewpoint, and they attracted a great deal of controversy. Although he had initially rejected the literary tradition of his native country, Laxness later embraced the…
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