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...this period that is warmly evoked by Novelist Halldor Laxness, 64, who won the 1955 Nobel Prize for such works as Independent People, a story of immemorial peasant life, and Salka Valka, a sociological study of corruption, lust and politics in an Icelandic fishing village. In most of his later novels, Laxness seems to be reliving incidents from his own past. In this book, his narrator is a boy named Alfgrirn, who was born near Reykjavik as the 20th century dawned. His mother, a young woman bound for America, had paused in Brek-kukot at the friendly cottage of Bjorn...
...stone's throw from Hitler's grandiose, marble-pillared Luitpold Arena on the edge of Niirnberg lies bleak, barbed-wired Camp Valka. refuge for fugitives from the Iron Curtain countries. At the Luitpold, time was when Hitler offered Germans the hope of Lebensraum. Today the U.S. offers Camp Valka's people a new chance in life-in the U.S. But the chance is still discouragingly hard to grasp...
...applicant must have a documented record of his activities during the last two years. Since most escapees can document nothing that took place before their escape, they are consigned to a two-year wait at places like Camp Valka. Secretary of State Dulles has not used his authority to waive the two-year history...
...Problems. The West still has two refugee problems on its hands-and is doing almost nothing about either of them. One is the new problem of refugees from behind the Iron Curtain. They are now detained for weeks in a squalid camp at Valka, outside N¨umberg, until they get a job or emigrate. Most of them are strong hands and are being absorbed, but at Valka a new group of unwanted is developing. Nothing is being done about them. Although Radio Free Europe carefully does not urge Iron Curtain listeners to escape, its iteration of the attractions...
...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...
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