The Blue Fox - Brossura

Sjon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 184659037X ISBN 13: 9781846590375

Casa editrice: Telegram, 2008

Riassunto

“The Blue Fox is a magical novel.”—Bjork

The year is 1883, and the stark Icelandic landscape is the backdrop for this spellbinding fable that is part mystery, part fairy tale. The fates of a priest, a naturalist, and a young woman with Down syndrome are intrinsically bound and gradually, surprisingly unraveled.

"Sjon's fable...describes its world with brilliant, precise, concrete colour and detail while at the same time making things and people mysterious and ungraspable...The world of 19th-century Iceland is brilliantly and economically present: the bareness of the dwellings, the roughness of the churches and congregations, the meager food...The novel is a parable, comic, and lyrical about the nature of things."—A.S. Byatt for The Times

Sjon was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1962. A novelist, playwright, lyricist, and poet, he wrote the lyrics to Bjork's hit songs “Isobel,” “Joga,” and “Bachelorette” and was nominated for an Academy Award for his lyrics to the music for the film Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier.

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'Every now and then a writer changes the whole map of literature inside my head. 'The most recent has been the Icelander Sjón, whose work is unlike anything I had read, and very exciting ... I think of Icelanders as erudite, singular, tough, and uncompromising. Sjón is all these things, but he is also quicksilver, playful and surreal ... [Sjón] has changed the way I see things.' --A.S. Byatt, The New York Review of Books


'...in this beautiful, tiny book, Sjón has produced the literary equivalent of a snowflake, a hundred page riff on the literature, landscape and history of Iceland which reads more like an epic poem, albeit with one striking piece of modernity thrown in.' --Sarah Hesketh, Ready Steady Book

'The Blue Fox describes its world with brilliant, precise, concrete colour and detail...Comic and lyrical.' --A.S. Byatt, The Times

'...in this beautiful, tiny book, Sjón has produced the literary equivalent of a snowflake, a hundred page riff on the literature, landscape and history of Iceland which reads more like an epic poem, albeit with one striking piece of modernity thrown in.' --Sarah Hesketh, Ready Steady Book

'The Blue Fox describes its world with brilliant, precise, concrete colour and detail...Comic and lyrical.' --A.S. Byatt, The Times

A nearly perfect modern myth --Wall Street Journal

L'autore:

Sjón was born in Reykjavik in 1962. His first collection of poetry was published when he was sixteen. He has gone on to publish many poetry collections, novels, plays and books for children. He has received numerous literary awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award for the music for Dancer In The Dark, directed by Lars von Trier Translator Victoria Cribb lived in Iceland for many years. She now lives in London, where she teaches an undergraduate course in Icelandic. Her translations include three novels in collaboration with Olaf Olafsson, as well as numerous other pieces of fiction and non-fiction,

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• Editore: Telegram
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 184659037X
• ISBN 13: 9781846590375
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 112