Villa Rubein - Galsworthy, John

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Résumé :
Edmund Dawney gekk eftir ?rm?rnum vi? Botzen og sag?i vi? Alois Harz: ?V?ri ??r sama um a? ?ekkja fj?lskylduna ? bleika h?sinu, Villa Rubein? Harz svara?i brosandi: ?Kannski. ?Komdu me? m?r seinnipartinn ? dag. ?eir h?f?u stoppa? fyrir g?mlu h?si me? blindu, yfirgefnu ?tlit, sem st?? vi? sj?lft sig ? veggnum; Harz ?tti hur?inni upp. ?Komdu inn, ?? vilt ekki morgunmat enn??. ?g ?tla a? m?la ?na ? dag. Hann hlj?p upp beru brei?u stigann og Dawney fylgdi r?lega me?, ?umalfingur hans kr?kur ? handvegi vestis hans og h?f?inu hent. ? h?aloftinu sem fyllti alla efstu s?guna haf?i Harz dregi? striga a? glugganum. Hann var ungur ma?ur ? mi?ju h??, ferk?ntu?, ?xl, virkur, me? hornr?tt andlit, h?tt kinnbein og sterkan, hvassan h?ku. Augu hans voru stingandi og st?lbl?, augabr?nirnar mj?g sveigjanlegar, nefi? langt og ?unnt me? h?ri br?; og d?kka, ?skipta h?ri? hans passa?i honum eins og hettu. F?tin hans litu ?t eins og hann hafi aldrei hugsa? um ??. ?etta herbergi, sem ?j?na?i fyrir vinnustofu, svefnherbergi og stofu, var ber og rykugt. Fyrir ne?an gluggann hlj?p ?in ? vorfl??inu ni?ur dalinn, l?k, ?r br??nu eiri. Harz for?a?ist fyrir striganum eins og skylmingama?ur a? finna fjarl?g? s?na; Dawney t?k s?ti sitt ? pakkpokanum. ?Snj?rinn hefur fari? me? ?hlaupi ? ?r, dr? hann saman. ?Talferinn kemur br?nn ni?ur, Eisack kemur ni?ur bl?r; ?eir streyma inn ? Etsch og gera ?a? gr?nt; d?misaga um vori? fyrir ?ig, m?lari minn. Harz blanda?i litum s?num saman.

Biographie:
John Galsworthy OM was an English dramatist and novelist who lived from 14 August 1867 to 31 January 1933. His novels, The Forsyte Saga, and two more trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter, are his best-known works. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. Galsworthy, who came from a wealthy upper-middle-class family, was expected to become a lawyer, but he found the profession unappealing, so he resorted to literature. Before his first book, The Man of Property, about the Forsyte family, was released in 1897, he was thirty years old. It wasn't until that book-the first of its kind-that he saw true popularity. His debut play, The Silver Box, had its London premiere the same year. As a writer, he gained notoriety for his socially conscious plays that addressed issues such as the politics and morality of war, the persecution of women, the use of solitary confinement in prisons, the battle of workers against exploitation, and jingoism. The patriarch, Old Jolyon, is based on Galsworthy's father, and the Forsyte family in the collection of books and short tales known as The Forsyte Chronicles is comparable to Galsworthy's family in many aspects.