The fish concert

The Fischkonzert is a novel by Halldór Laxness, published in Iceland in 1957 under the title Brekkukotsannáll. In 1973 he was filmed by Rolf Hädrich in Iceland. The author also appears in a small role. Edit content source text

The simple Brekkukot farm is located on the outskirts of Reykjavík. There, Álfgrímur lives Hansen with his supposed grandparents and tells about the life and the adversities on the Brekkukot. The fate of the allegedly famous singer Garðar Hólm is interwoven in the plot, which, as it turns out, is in reality Gorgur and belongs to the family. His fulminant return to Iceland is expected, but one day he will arrive at Hólm, a very humble life in Denmark, at the expense of the local shipowner, Danebrogsmann and colonial merchant Jon Gudmunsen and his son, the wholesaler and commander Gvendur Gudmunsen , The legend of the world star Garðar Hólm, who has appeared in all the great stages around the world in honor of his Icelandic homeland, and which has been woven around Hólm for years by the alimentary merchants and financial experts, proved to be a doubtful PR measure for the "sponsors" business and patrons ", at which the supposed singer of world renown finally broke. In truth Hólm did not have the faintest approach of voice or talent. Álfgrímur himself was engaged as a schoolboy by the old pastor, Sira Jon, whenever there was no one else to sing on the poor pits. A central key role of the novel is attributed to the author by the wooden turnstile, which separates the brekkukot from the rest of the world. If on the court side the old, subdued world of the simple, honest, and God-fearing Quattrofisher, which sees man as the center of all thought and action, the modern capitalist path, which regards man as a means to an end, depending on profitability. Although the Brekkukot is lost in the last lines of the novel, he still lives together with his inviolable integrity in the person of the narrator Álfgrímur. Laxness, who laid the path of life Álfgrímurs as a parallel as well as a counter-design to the Garðar Hólms, thus advocates the brekkukot's ethical concept. In contrast to his alter ego Garðar Hólm, Álfgrímur of Gudmunsen was not able to cope with one Scholarship Agreement for the planned study in Denmark, as he would inevitably have committed himself to a deadly dependence on the representatives of the market and finance, assuming the very tempting offer of Gudmunsens in Garðar Hólm. Gudmundsson, after the final failure of Hólms, was looking for a substitute, which he believed to have found cheap in the person Álfgrímurs. What Gudmunsen did not know, however, was that Álfgrímur had something that Hólm lacked: the unconditional love of his grandparents. In order to enable him to study, his grandparents had sold the Brekkukot to Gudmunsen and, with this sacrifice of primitive Christianity, secured independence and the future of Álfgrímur. While the corrupted Hólm of Sira Jon was carried to the grave, Álfgrímur Hansen, with his straight, unambitious and unpretentious nature, developed into a writer of world renown who succeeded in creating a literary monument to his home, Brekkukot with all his values ​​and ideals Duration and stock. Edit Backgroundtext

The example of Brekkukot's farm was the Melkot farm, where Guðrún Klængsdóttir, the great-grandfather of Halldór Laxness, also lived. His mother grew up in Melkot and met her husband Guðjón Helgason. He worked in the farm. Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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