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If you ponder life as an immature Icelandic slacker, then you'll want to check out Hallgrímur Helgason's novel 101 Reykjavík. Hlynur Bjorn lives at home, watches TV and porn when he's not getting high with his divorced mom and/or her lesbian lover, and sluffs off to bars most nights to put a dollar value on women (based on desirability) while hanging out with his equally bored friends. By the time Hlynur faces moral challenges, it's difficult to find reason to care. Hlynur's thoughts are detailed, shotgun style, with some wit and humor (though much is forced), and a strangeness one hopes is the result of Icelandic idiom lost in translation. In a gay couple's bedroom, Hylnur and Hofy enter into this exchange, typifying Helgason's disjointed style:
"Why did you sleep with me?"
Spock.
Hofy turns and looks at me propped up on my elbows with Rosy's hat on my head. Must look pretty weird, I suppose. I tilt my head to allow the hat to fall off, and look up at the ceiling. Looking down at me are two fat, hand-painted, and pretty well-hung angels. Nice one, guys. It's like that chapel in St. Peter's. Michelangelo was gay. Yeah. Maybe it's all in the Bible. I look at her again.
"Why did I sleep with you?"To be sure, 101 Reykjavík captures the ennui of a cold, depressed generation (and nation), but if "[w]ords are snowflakes. They fall," Helgason might have tried to clear a better path. --Michael Ferch -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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101 Reykjavik, Iceland's answer to Beverly Hills 90210, presents a snapshot of life in one of Reykjavik's best postal codes. Although much of what's here is the all-too-usual Scandinavian ennui--dark days and depressed slackers on the dole--there's much good here as well. Thirtysomething Hlynur Bjorn mopes around all day, living on government aid in his mother's basement. He's a devotee of porn (illegal in Iceland), bad TV, and the Internet--where he has formed his most meaningful relationship with a Hungarian princess. Life comes crashing down on Hlynur when his mother tells him she's a lesbian and her girlfriend moves in; his girlfriend du jour becomes pregnant; his father, an alcoholic, starts hanging out with all Hlynur's friends; a good friend announces he is HIV-positive; and the clubs, drugs, and girls just aren't doing it for him anymore. Although happiness seems possible for everyone around him, Hlynur sees that it takes effort. A well-written, though bleak, picture of hipster life in a small, insular country. Michael Spinella
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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3. April 2003
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Helgason's Hlynur is one of the most original characters I've come across lately. I found Hlynur's train of thought hilarious and laughed out loud throughout the book. I wasn't even aware Helgason hadn't written it in English. A lot of the humor rides on word play, so in my opinion, the translation is excellent.
I rooted for Hlynur even during the outrageous prediciments he continually got himself into. At times he stepped over the line between good and bad taste, if that's what it can be called, pushing me nearly to the point of disgust. Then another line that cracked me up put Hlynur back in my good graces again. Not since A Confederacy of Dunces has a character been more hard to take, yet loveable nonetheless.
I knew next to nothing about Iceland and Icelanders before reading this book. I feel as if I've just returned from a few days visit. I highly recommend this book.
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addictively clever and stylish
27. April 2005
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This book is essentially a deconstruction of Hamlet, with more explicit drug use and pregnancies. A moral tome it is not. But the cleverness abounds. If you love wordplay and aren't too turned-off by self-conscious stylishness (which is here used artfully, I think, to indicate a kind of fumbling), you will greatly enjoy this book. It's the kind of book you read phrase to phrase rather than chapter to chaper - like Shakespeare, you don't read it for the twists and turns of plot, but instead for the twists and turns of phrase. But it's not Shakespeare, either. It's crap, really. But it's like, crap gold.
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101 Rekjavik
8. Juli 2009
Format:Taschenbuch
This book is a modern classic, at least of Icelandic literature. Imagine if Henry MIller had written Tropic of Cancer on crack instead of wine.
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