Sean Russell vs. Halldór Laxness
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Sean Russell
1893 – 1940
Sean Russell may refer to:Seán Russell (1893–1940), Irish republican Sean Russell (author), Canadian author of fantasy literature and historical novels Sean Russell, Australian rugby league player
"The carriage, Tristam realized, was becoming the metaphor for this period of his life: he neither owned, drove, nor directed one in any way but was simply carri…"
Halldór Laxness
1902 – 1998
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.
"When my grandfather was born there were barely two thousand people living in the capital; in my own childhood there were nearly five thousand. In grandfather's …"
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