by Halldór Laxness · Steidl Gerhard Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783882434712
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«Sieben Zauberer» is a collection of stories by Halldór Laxness, published by Steidl Gerhard Verlag in paperback (143 pages, in German).
The volume brings together eight stories that move between the real and the marvelous, with characters such as a bellboy from Reykjavík who stands up to fascists or a peasant who dreams of being Napoleon. The stories range across Iceland, imperial China, 1920s Sicily and the Mongolia of Genghis Khan, with magic as the common thread.
It is part of the Steidl Taschenbücher series (no. 89); its original Icelandic title, Sjö töframenn, was published in 1942.
Recommended for readers interested in Nordic narrative and in the work of Nobel Prize in Literature winner Halldór Laxness.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway.
