William Heinesen

The Tower at the Edge of the World

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The Tower at the Edge of the World is William Heinesen's last novel written when he was 76, and is the summation of all of his work. He is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Nordic author of the twentieth century.William Heinesen describes The Tower at the Edge of the World as a poetic mosaic novel about earliest childhood. There is the perspective of both the child and the old man looking back at his life as a child. Although there is a lot of tangible detail and recognisable characters the book has a mythic quality. The events in a small community in the windswept Atlantic ocean being recorded by the writer in his room, his tower at… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Jones, W. Glyn (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-910213-73-5
EAN: 9781910213735
Produktnummer: 25153090
Verlag: Dedalus
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 204 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 560 KB

Über den Autor

William Heinesen (1900-1991) was born in Torshavn in the Faroe Islands, the son of a Danish mother and Faroese father, and was equally at home in both languages. Although he spent most of his life in the Faroe Islands he chose to write in Danish as he felt it offered him greater inventive freedom. Although internationally known as a poet and a novelist he made his living as an artist. His paintings range from large-scale murals in public buildings, through oil to pen sketches, caricatures and collages.It is Dedalus's intention to make available all of William Heinesen's novels in new translations by W. Glyn Jones. So far published are The Black Cauldron, The Lost Musicians, Windswept Dawn, The Good Hope, which won The Nordic Prize for Literature in 1964, and Mother Pleiades. In 2018 Dedalus will publish William Heinesen's last novel, The Tower at the Edge of the World and in 2019 Noatun.William Heinesen is generally considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Scandinavian novelists of the twentieth century.