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E-Artikel
Titel:
Colours, Colour Symbolism, and Social Critique in Halldór Laxness’s Salka Valka
Beteiligte:
Van Deusen, Natalie M.
Erschienen:
University of Alberta Libraries, 2009
Erschienen in:Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
Sprache:
Nicht zu entscheiden
DOI:
10.29173/scancan33
ISSN:
2816-5187;
0823-1796
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<jats:p>ABSTRACT: Halldór Kiljan Laxness is one of the most successful and renowned authors
in all of Iceland. The Nobel Laureate has written many well-known works, one of which
is his early novel Salka Valka (1931-1932), a political romance that follows the life of a young girl in a remote
Icelandic fishing village from age ten to age twenty-five. An interesting feature
of Salka Valka is Laxness’s use of colours and colour symbolism. While Laxness employs a wide variety
of basic and non-basic colour terms throughout the novel to describe various people,
objects, and natural phenomena, most interesting is his use of grey as opposed to
other colours. Laxness uses grey to portray the dreary life and destitute people in
the desolate and remote Icelandic fishing village of Óseyri, which he juxtaposes against
colourful descriptions of the vibrant and flourishing lives of wealthy individuals
both within and outside the village. This article examines these and Laxness’s other
uses of grey as opposed to other colours in Salka Valka, particularly as they relate to the social and economic critique that, as scholars
have noted time and time again, define this novel.
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