Independent People is a criticism of materialism and the already rampant capitalism in Iceland in the early twentieth century the novel is as dark as a winter’s evening in the north of Iceland with beams of sunshine here and there. Laxness had passionate notions about independence and freedom, so dear to the Icelandic nation today, and displays in his novel the impact this passion can have on an individual and his family.
Bjartur, a former servant, stands up for his rights against others to gain independence, which he considers the most fundamental human right than anything else in the world. The story tells the adventures of Bjartur, a stubborn farmer with fixed ideas, who lives a modest life in an isolated location in Iceland, with his family. The region of Vopnafjörður, in northeast Iceland, powerfully inspires this book about rural Icelandic life in the early twentieth century. Independent people is an epic novel by the famous Halldór Laxness, that received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955. Independent People (Icelandic: Sjálfstætt fólk) is an epic novel by Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, originally published in two volumes in 19.
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