ICEL 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Brimir, Icelandic Literature, Fairy Tale
13 Apr 2018
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This was followed by his novel lovestar in 2002 (english 2012), which presents a scathing, satirical look at the sacrifice of personal freedoms to serve technological development/consumerism. In 2006 andri snaer"s dreamland: a self-help manual for a frightened nation appeared (english 2008) and was adapted into a documentary film in 2009. Most recently his novel time-casket appeared in 2013, dealing with economic and environmental disaster. In 2016 andri asnaer also ran for the presidency of iceland, finishing in 3rd place behind the current president. The story tells of a planet populated only by children, setting something of a fairy tale tone (pg. 10) Idyllic in certain ways, the planet also seems to present certain dangers (wild animals), though there remains a kind of harmony. Focusing on one island in particular, the story tells of a group of children and an adult man, gleesome (jelly) goodday, who crash lands on the planet and is mistaken for a monster.
