When the Fish Sing, Paperback Book

When the fish sing, the masterpiece of the contemporary Icelandic novel, and one of the world's leading novelists of the twentieth century, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature. In this novel, Laxness is preoccupied with the very simple everyday reality before modernity entered his country, Iceland, and he reads this reality to us from the point of view of An orphan child, the challenges of life grew up with him when his country was in the midst of a struggle for liberation from the old social, economic, and civilized system with its inherited values and traditions, and the pressure of heading towards modernity, which began to accelerate its developments in the neighboring countries of Europe, and for this, it was imperative that the protagonist withdraw with his country, As one critic put it involuntarily, to modernity, the grandfather, for example, was forced to leave his profession as a solo fisherman after the large fishing vessels proliferated. Thus, Laxness enters us with remarkable ease into an important historical detail of his countrys social and economic history, and shows us how new social groups are born and others are destroyed. The novelist continues to follow with passion the journey of his heroes to show us through them the good nature of this society, the flavor of their own reality, and their interconnection at the same time with the world around them. He draws us their personalities and intellectual structures with strange sincerity, so that we think that they are real historical creatures. The novelist set out to reveal their details after the official history stopped recording their lives, as is known, because they are not kings or military leaders. On the other hand, Laxness explored pre-modern Icelandic life in his realistic, magical style, to deconstruct the supernatural structures show more