Author: Clément Guntern
CLéMENT GUNTERN
Towards an irreconcilable Switzerland
The results of this autumn's federal elections are a cause for celebration or sadness, depending on one's sensibilities. However, we can...
Laxness, Iceland's epic breath of fresh air
Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955, Halldór Laxness remains unknown in Iceland. Yet he is considered Iceland's greatest modern writer.
The sagas, a treasure to be discovered
The term "saga", which has entered common parlance, can cover a multitude of different realities. Let's not forget that...
The saga of Icelandic literature
The land of ice and fire: that's how we describe this country on the edge of Europe, long relegated to the unenviable position of an inhospitable land on the edge of the world. Over the past few years, Instagram has seen countless photographs of Iceland's natural wonders: its waterfalls, glaciers, black sand beaches and volcanoes, but also its uninhabited moorland, sometimes verdant, sometimes barren and desolate. Yet this romantic definition of a country where the opposing elements engage in an endless struggle to create an original nature cannot really capture what makes Iceland a true jewel of European culture. European, yes, because despite a certain proximity to the North American continent, this country has never ceased to be, through all its roots, a land of old Europe.
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