George S. Tate
GEORGE S. TATE is assistant professor of comparative literature at Brigham Young University. He has authored several articles on Old English and Old Norse literature. He interviewed Laxness while a Fulbright fellow in Iceland.
Articles
Halldor Laxness, the Mormons and the Promised Land
When the all-seeing eye on the facade of Zion’s Mercantile winked at him, beckoning him with its self-assured commingling of matter and spirit to write a novel about the Promised Land, Halldor Laxness had already…
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