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These are the Faroe Islands as they were some fifty years ago: sea-washed and remote, with one generation still tied to the sea for sustenance, and a younger generation turning toward commerce and clerical work in the towns. At the post-hunt whale-meat auction, Ketil enthusiastically bids for more meat than he can afford. Thus when Ketil is seventy, he and his wife struggle
These are the Faroe Islands as they were some fifty years ago: sea-washed and remote, with one generation still tied to the sea for sustenance, and a younger generation turning toward commerce and clerical work in the towns. At the post-hunt whale-meat auction, Ketil enthusiastically bids for more meat than he can afford. Thus when Ketil is seventy, he and his wife struggle to repay their debt. Heðin Brú (1901–1987), novelist and translator, was considered the most important Faroese writer of his generation and is known for his fresh and ironic style.
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Dec 24, 2012
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What a strange reaction I'm having to this book. "Tragicomical" is the first word that comes to mind as I flail around for an explanation. If The Old Man and His Sons does anything, it makes the reader uncomfortable. I didn't know whether to laugh or cringe as I read the book. As I approached the end, I thought that my feelings might resolve themselves, but now, in the post-reading pondering, I'm still baffled. Was the novel supposed to elicit pity for the pathetic characters or some kind of quai
What a strange reaction I'm having to this book. "Tragicomical" is the first word that comes to mind as I flail around for an explanation. If The Old Man and His Sons does anything, it makes the reader uncomfortable. I didn't know whether to laugh or cringe as I read the book. As I approached the end, I thought that my feelings might resolve themselves, but now, in the post-reading pondering, I'm still baffled. Was the novel supposed to elicit pity for the pathetic characters or some kind of quaint longing for a simpler life? While the setting of the work is important, for the sake of providing context, geography did little to influence the plot (such as it was) outside of the opening scene wherein the old man Ketil and his idiotic son Kalvur participate in a whale hunt. After the whale hunt, Ketil foolishly incurs debt for a large portion of whale meat. This indebtedness serves to accentuate the decline of traditional Faroese culture, as contrasted to the rise of more modern culture. A lack of skills, unwillingness to travel, and a deeply ingrained fear of public shame, all of which seem to be part and parcel of old Faroese culture, push Ketil, his wife, and Kalvur into a tighter and tighter economic pinch. It's a clear case of the poorer getting poorer, and while darkly comical, the "one step forward, two steps back" progression of the family's fortunes is painful to see. Now, I've never been in as bad a set of circumstances as this family, but I have known poverty and how difficult, seemingly impossible, at times, it is to climb out of the hole of deep indebtedness. Maybe that's why I couldn't enjoy the work as much as I would have liked, because it brought back memories of some times in my life that I'd like to forget. I suppose that if I had been raised on a silver spoon, as they say, I would have been rolling on the floor laughing watching these ignorant people fumble their way around in the dark, blinded by stubbornness and cultural assumptions that they don't even understand. The simple prose of the book reflects the simplicity of the characters. The slow, meandering plot reflects the unsteady and aimless trajectory of the lives of Ketil and his family. Even the subject matter of their dialogue is banal, focused on immediate gains and longer-term fears. Despite all of this, there is a certain sophistication of feeling that affects the reader. By seeing the characters so helpless and, frankly, stupid in their extremities, one feels something akin to pity, but a sort of pity wrapped in warmth. While I feel sorry for the characters, I don't grieve for them. And while I enjoy their well-meaning banter, I have to shake my head at their foolishness. This pull between emotions, though, is not extreme in either direction, leaving me a bit ambivalent about the book as a whole. It's "a good book, well written," as the saying goes, but lacked the punch that I had hoped I would find. Not a bad way to spend time reading, and maybe my opinion will change as I have more time to reflect on it. But for now, I'm left, like the old Faroese, aimless and wandering, searching for some kind of resolution.
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Over the New Year period some friends and I went to the Faroe Islands for a short holiday. These are a remote group of islands to the north of Scotland (although it’s an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.) We wanted to go somewhere unique and remote. Often when I travel to new places I like to find translated literature from that location to read while I'm there. So I was delighted to discover “The Old Man and His Sons” which is a Faroese novel first published in 1940. The autho
Over the New Year period some friends and I went to the Faroe Islands for a short holiday. These are a remote group of islands to the north of Scotland (although it’s an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.) We wanted to go somewhere unique and remote. Often when I travel to new places I like to find translated literature from that location to read while I'm there. So I was delighted to discover “The Old Man and His Sons” which is a Faroese novel first published in 1940. The author grew up in a small village in the Faroes at a time when there was a generational shift from traditional self-contained living where people primarily sustained themselves to a more outward-looking market economy. The story reflects this transition following a few months in the life of Ketil and his wife, an older couple who live in a simple old dwelling. Their children have all grown and started families of their own except for their youngest son Kalvur who is regarded as simple-minded. The older couple find themselves financially strained when Ketil impulsively purchases a large quantity of whale meat at an auction. As the date they have to pay the bill grows near, they desperately try to find ways to earn extra money and bicker with their children who still sponge off from them. Read my full review of The Old Man and His Sons by Heðin Brú on LonesomeReader
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This book was too short, and over too soon! It took a long time to track down a book written in the Faroe Islands that had actually been translated into English. This was written in the 1940s, depicting a quickly fading "old way" of living as a Faroese Islander. Brutal whale hunt, brutal living, but debt-free! This is a simple story with memorable characters, but tends to drive home the message of the old ways having value and being disregarded a little too forcefully. Because the Faroe Islands a
This book was too short, and over too soon! It took a long time to track down a book written in the Faroe Islands that had actually been translated into English. This was written in the 1940s, depicting a quickly fading "old way" of living as a Faroese Islander. Brutal whale hunt, brutal living, but debt-free! This is a simple story with memorable characters, but tends to drive home the message of the old ways having value and being disregarded a little too forcefully. Because the Faroe Islands are at the top of places I dream about visiting, I stopped every time a specific spot was mentioned and looked at pictures of it before moving on in the story. It became easy to picture, and easy to place, when you consider that the main characters think of Tórshavn as "the city," and haven't been since children. The Faroe Islands are not that big to begin with! [image error]
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My review for Translation Thursday: THE OLD MAN AND HIS SONS by Heðin Brú (good luck pronouncing that one!) translated from Faroese (no really, it's a language). I'll leave the whole review on my blog http://tinyurl.com/jjxwkvk for a week or so.
My review for Translation Thursday: THE OLD MAN AND HIS SONS by Heðin Brú (good luck pronouncing that one!) translated from Faroese (no really, it's a language). I'll leave the whole review on my blog http://tinyurl.com/jjxwkvk for a week or so.
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Apr 29, 2011
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Heoin Bru's 'The Old Man And His Sons' is a beautiful, gripping chronicle of the daily struggle for survival on the Faroe Islands, a huddle of storm-ravaged specks of rock in the north Atlantic. First published in Faroese in 1940, the book was translated into English by New York publishers Eriksson in 1970, and has been unearthed and re-published this year, to their tremendous credit, by translation experts Telegram. Like the book itself, it's a venture worthy of great praise. This is a stunning a
Heoin Bru's 'The Old Man And His Sons' is a beautiful, gripping chronicle of the daily struggle for survival on the Faroe Islands, a huddle of storm-ravaged specks of rock in the north Atlantic. First published in Faroese in 1940, the book was translated into English by New York publishers Eriksson in 1970, and has been unearthed and re-published this year, to their tremendous credit, by translation experts Telegram. Like the book itself, it's a venture worthy of great praise. This is a stunning and strangely comforting book, best read tucked up warm while the wind howls outside and a pot of whale meat blubbers away on the stove downstairs (okay, maybe not the last bit). It tells of the growing inter-generational conflicts between the elderly Ketil and his wife, and their sons and daughters-in-law - who have "been to Torshavn, and picked up daft notions" - and who resist the traditional fishing, scavenging and seabird-catching slog of their forebears. "I don't know how the world's got this way," bemoans Ketil's wife as she prepares to leave her home village for the first time in forty years to attend a funeral. "The older folk scraped and struggled every day, and tried to get good value out of every penny, and there was nothing to spare. You were reckoned to have done well if you gave every man his due. But now! The young folk spend their working days the whole year round in idle amusement. But they seem to get by somehow." The central plot strand of the novel pursues Ketil's struggle to repay a hefty debt accrued after the community's annual whale kill, which is regaled in all its bloody, frothy glory in the opening chapter. Ketil's stubborn pride does not permit debt, so, with the help of his last remaining home-bound son Kalv - who has preoccupations of his own with the daughter of the local con-man and sometime suicidal preacher - he sets out on a series of increasingly risky escapades to bring in the money before the District Sheriff seeks to settle his books. But it is the struggle - Faroese style - between change and tradition which forms the books' main narrative. When a storm threatens to blow the turf roof off Ketil's home, the old men of the village spend the whole night lying across it to prevent it being ripped away by the squalls. His sons are annoyed. "Are you running around after your roof again? Put corrugated iron on your roof and then we'll all get a bit of peace at night! Fancy having a damn roof that you have to sit and hold onto, every time there's a real use for it!" But the old men are unrepentant: '"For all that, a turf roof's the best roof," was the first thing they said when they had got warm again and recovered their powers of speech.' This is a beautiful book which recalls the savage glory of a simple life by now (we presume) long extinct. It's enough to send you out for a bracing cliff-top walk, to gaze at the sky-line and wonder how many other treasures those rugged north Atlantic rocks might still hold.
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It was hard to read this portrait of modernity encroaching on tradition in the Faroe Islands without recalling other, perhaps better known novels that have grappled with similar material (and happen to be among my own favorites). Not for long, though, because Heðin Brú's The Old Man And His Sons is very much its own book. Its fatalism bears a lighter touch than the bleakness of Halldór Laxness' Iceland, and is more down-to-earth than the religion and mysticism of George Mackay Brown's Orkney sto
It was hard to read this portrait of modernity encroaching on tradition in the Faroe Islands without recalling other, perhaps better known novels that have grappled with similar material (and happen to be among my own favorites). Not for long, though, because Heðin Brú's The Old Man And His Sons is very much its own book. Its fatalism bears a lighter touch than the bleakness of Halldór Laxness' Iceland, and is more down-to-earth than the religion and mysticism of George Mackay Brown's Orkney stories, and that lightness is reflected in the matter-of-fact style of its prose (as translated by John F. West). Though early on Brú sets up what seems to be a binary, generic critique of the younger generation by the older, he masterfully subverts that expectation as characters develop further and each generation—and more importantly, each person—reveals particular strengths and shortcomings. That's what ended up being really compelling in the novel: whereas Laxness, Brown, and others often frame the decline of tradition as the victimization of island life by larger systems and forces of history, technology, capitalism, etc., Brú leaves far more room for individual will: his characters are as capable of being hardworking and generous as they are of being lazy and selfish, and the conflicts or problems in the novel come from individual choices or actions far more often than vast unseen forces. Characters don't always have the same ideas about what being a good neighbor or islander means, but they are equally capable of aspiring to those qualities—or not—regardless of generation. So the conflict is a "gentler" one so to speak, if no less important (and no less high-stakes), so Brú's straightforward style and emphasis of ordinary if complex undertakings like fishing, funerals, and food preparation over more elaborate plotting are perfect for bringing that philosophical rather than polemical perspective to the fore.
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This story takes place on the Faeroe Islands. The Faroe or Faeroe Islands are a North Atlantic archipelago located 200 mi north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway between Norway and Iceland. Whale hunting, aka a whale drive, is our first encounter of action on the island. The old man Ketil, hitched a ride on a boat with his son, Kalvur. We learn how the hunt occurs. It was a blood bath. But the real story is the conflict between the old ways of the parents and the new way of the sons (and th
This story takes place on the Faeroe Islands. The Faroe or Faeroe Islands are a North Atlantic archipelago located 200 mi north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway between Norway and Iceland. Whale hunting, aka a whale drive, is our first encounter of action on the island. The old man Ketil, hitched a ride on a boat with his son, Kalvur. We learn how the hunt occurs. It was a blood bath. But the real story is the conflict between the old ways of the parents and the new way of the sons (and the haughtiness of their wives). I found it an educational read. Certainly had not ever read anything set in the Faero Islands before. Until I joined this the Reading the World Group, I had not HEARD of the Faero Islands. Ketil and his wife are old souls and live the simple way. Their sons are more modern. The book is short and simply written. Very glad I found it. 5 stars
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Opening - A school of blackfish is in Seyvrágs Fjord - two or three hundred small whales, swimming silently round in little groups, and longing to be backin the broad ocean again, for this is not the way they intended to go.
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