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Romanene om Keflavík

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Romanene om Keflavík inkluderer to Stefánssons tidligere verk, Fiskene har ingen føtter og Omtrent på størrelse med universet.

647 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

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Jón Kalman Stefánsson

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Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 17 December 1963) is an Icelandic author. Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his high school diploma. From 1975–1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked in a slaughterhouse, in the fishing industry, doing masonry and for one summer as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport. Jón Kalman studied literature at the University of Iceland from 1986 until 1991 but did not finish his degree. He taught literature at two high schools for a period of time and wrote articles and criticism for Morgunblaðið newspaper for a number of years. Jón lived in Copenhagen from 1992–1995, reading, washing floors and counting buses. He worked as a librarian at the Mosfellsbær Library near Reykjavík until the year 2000. Since then he has been a full-time writer.

His first published work, the poetry collection, Með byssuleyfi á eilífðina, came out in 1988. He has published two other collections of poetry and a number of novels. His novel Sumarljós, og svo kemur nóttin (Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night) won The Icelandic Literature Prize in 2005. Three of his books have also been nominated for The Nordic Council's Literature Prize.

He was the recipient of the Per Olov Enquists Prize for 2011, awarded at the book fair in Gautaborg in September 2011.

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111 reviews14 followers
August 3, 2022
"Ten, kto nepozná vlastnú minulosť, alebo sa jej nechce postaviť tvárou v tvár, v budúcnosti stratí vlastnú identitu, a to platí o národoch aj o jednotlivcoch. Na to, aby sme sa pohli dopredu, občas musíme najprv cúvnuť."

Moje tretie zaľúbenie sa do Stefánssona ❤️. Opäť si ma získal zručnosťou svojho spisovateľského pera, ktoré vie tak dobre opísať pre mňa najdôležitejší aspekt (a samozrejme nielen tento) literatúry - ľudskú dušu a život vo všetkých jeho peripetiách, vzostupoch aj pádoch, ktoré každý tak dobre poznáme.
V rodinnej Ságe pozostávajúcej z dvoch kníh sa autor zaoberá a rozvíja najmä to, čo človeka obohacuje a tvorí, až priam živí, ale aj to, čo ho pomaly ale isto ženie do temnoty a ľútosti. Cez životy jednotlivých postáv, ich spomienky, sny, potreby a emócie, ktoré v tejto knihe predstavil a opísal som postupne nadobúdala túžbu vstať a začať riešiť v sebe a s inými to, čo ma už dlho kvári. Nie je to však také jednoduché a Jón si to veľmi dobre uvedomuje, všeličo a hocikto sa dostane ľuďom do života... a častokrát prejde mnoho času, kým sa človek odhodlá, porozumie.

Za mňa, neváhajte sa ponoriť do príbehu Ariho, jeho rodiny a známych.
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44 reviews2 followers
April 7, 2026
jedna z najväčších záhad (môjho) vesmíru..
ako niekto dokáže takto písať??

"Láska teda predsa len nie je: milujem ťa tak veľmi, že by som takmer dokázal umrieť, you"ll always be my endless love - ale keď niekto vyjde do mrazu s vlnenou dekou a čiapkou, aby sa ten druhý mohol ďalej dívať na hviezdy..."
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September 19, 2024
First of all, I apologize to everyone who enjoyed these books, but this book was not made for me. I hated every second I read it, I didn't finish the second half. My friend recommended it to me, so I was hoping it would improve, but nothing.
Telling stories from the main character's hometown sounds interesting, but it's not. Every woman is depressed and sad, a man has an ego and a MEN's personality, he has to be strong, drink, smoke and a woman is there to serve them. Okay, I get it, life is depressing in a cold country that is beautiful in its own way and all the people sucks. Let's move on... the story follows the youth and growth of a boy with the intellect of a teen which generally I hoped wasn't so bad. I found the main character really stupid and assumtive. Nothing in the book surprised me, was there a plot? I don't know.
Plus, the whole time we got to know the main character, I felt like the author was forcing me to like him. His favorite song was playing in his head, so we had to read most of the text with the main character's thoughts and the explanation of the whole song.
The book was definitely not for me. I felt that I had to think like him, I had to like him, there is no other side of the story and life is looking for a black cat in a black room - Pointless, endless and light does not exist.
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59 reviews1 follower
March 22, 2026
Na Islande som prežila veľmi šťastné životné obdobie a opakovane som sa tam vracala, takže odhodlanie prečítať si knihu bolo ovplyvnené osobnou skúsenosťou. Opis tvrdého veterného prostredia Reykjaneského poloostrova napriek bezútešnosti vo mne vynáralo dobré spomienky na môj pobyt tam. Postupne ma ale začala trápiť dĺžka románu. Zoznámenie s hlavným hrdinom je výborne napísané, poníženie, ktoré zažije pri návrate do domoviny je opísané s humorom a dojímavou hĺbkou. Postupne sa ale rozprávačovo tempo zvoľňuje, predstavuje nám stále nové postavy, dokonca rozdvojí hlavnú postavu. Optika autora ukazuje silné ženy, ktoré trpia v spolužití s tak isto trpiacimi mužmi. Muži majú moc veci meniť, ale nedokážu to. Ženy tvrdo drú, aby zachovali rodinu, aj keď veľmi často ich snaženie vyjde nazmar. Bolo pre mňa ťažké nájsť spojitosť medzi príbehmi jednotlivcov, hlavne ma iritovalo, že autor sa často opakuje v niektorých detailoch, ale prečítanie listu od macochy stále odkladá :-). Pobavil má záver knihy, keď si jeden z mužov nechá zmeniť pohlavie na ženské. Takéto vyvrcholenie som neočakávala. Je to príznačné pre množstvo súčasnej umeleckej tvorby, muži sú odsúdení na krutosť a neschopnosť vymaniť sa svojmu osudu a ženy všetko berú do svojich rúk.
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35 reviews12 followers
February 16, 2023
Čo Vám poviem… táto kniha sa stala jednou z mojich najobľúbenejšich…. ever!
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1,076 reviews38 followers
July 15, 2025
Islandská literatura je stejně jako celý Island tak divná, že jsem se do ní zamiloval. Velmi přesvědčivé příběhy.
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