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By Birna Bjarnadóttir

Recesses of the brain explores Guðbergur Bergsson's aesthetics of existence and literature. Bergsson - like such a lot of writers whose language isn't really broadly spoken or learn - is scarcely identified open air his native land, however the mental intensity of his imaginative and prescient finds the minds of his characters in ways in which are equivalent to novelists akin to Hamsun, Faulkner, and Garcia Márquez.

Birna Bjarnadóttir constructs a deep and entire argument for Bergsson's value as a grasp of narrative. Crossing centuries, oceans, and continents, her contextualization of Bergsson's aesthetics stretches from his local land's literary culture to the cultural domain names of Europe and North and South the US. Her research of his rules on attractiveness, love, and trust, provided as a discussion among Bergsson and various different writers and philosophers - Plotinus, Augustine, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Blanchot - is a remarkable mirrored image on essentially the most vital questions of recent instances.

Recesses of the brain introduces a profound author to the foreign level. The book's exploration of the cultural outer edge is both major, suggesting new interpretative recommendations for contemplating cultural contributions from remoted places.

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