Volume 45, Number 5 · March 26, 1998
End of an Epic
By Brad Leithauser
A story at once heartening and haunting and voluminous—it unfolded for nearly a century—recently reached its close. It was the tale of the life of the great Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness. He died on February 8, in a nursing home outside Reykjavik. He was ninety-five.
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