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INDEPENDENT PEOPLE (470 pp.)-Halldor Laxness (Translated by J. A. Thompson)-Knopf...
SALKA VALKA - Halldor Laxness -Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Caustic realism and old-fashioned sentiment combined in a lengthy sociological history of corruption, lust and political conflict in an Icelandic fishing village. Author Laxness has a weakness for rhetoric, a hand skilled at character dissection...
That Harvard's new Icelandic collection is "The second largest in the country, and the best in respect to its controversial political pamphlets and ephemeral material such as news broadsides," was the opinion expressed during a recent visit by Halldor Hermannsson, curator of the Cornell Icelandic collection and recognized as the greatest authority in America on the subject...
...Social Conditions in his country the Icelandic Publicist Halldor Kiljan Laxness has written: "Organized religion fares badly in Iceland. Ministers of religion have no prestige and the churches as a rule are empty on Sunday. . . . The Catholics have built a gorgeous cathedral at Reykjavik, though there are only about 150 Catholics in the town...