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 · The whispering muse by Sjón, Publication date Topics Caeneus (Greek mythology) -- Fiction, Argonauts (Greek mythology) -- Fiction, Sea stories -- Fiction, Fables, Sea stories, Argonauts (Greek mythology), Caeneus (Greek mythology) Publisher New York .  · The Whispering Muse: Author: Sjón: Genre: Novel: Written: (Eng. ) Length: pages: Original in: Icelandic: Availability: The Whispering Muse - US: The Whispering Muse - UK: The Whispering Muse - Canada: The Whispering Muse - India.  · The Whispering Muse, by Sjón. (Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 6, ; translated by Victoria Cribb; originally published in Icelandic as Argóarflísin by Bjartur, ) Sjón stands out for me as an author who has captured the essence of Iceland. But more than that, he creates an odd, alternate view of it.

The Whispering Muse by Sjón - review. The Whispering Muse is less dense with allusion and historical seepage than previous novels such as The Blue Fox and From the Mouth of the Whale. Its. The Whispering Muse, By Sjón, trans. Victoria Cribb. Iceland's maverick storyteller returns with a cruise into legend. The Whispering Muse takes the form of a memoir of an older Icelandic gentleman named Valdimar Haraldsson. Haraldsson fills his time with running a journal about the connection between fish and culture-specifically that fish is the secret to Nordic superiority.

The Whispering Muse, by Sjón. (Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 6, ; translated by Victoria Cribb; originally published in Icelandic as Argóarflísin by Bjartur, ) Sjón stands out for me as an author who has captured the essence of Iceland. But more than that, he creates an odd, alternate view of it. 1. 1. T he muse whispers into the ear of Caeneus, once an argonaut questing for the golden fleece, now second mate on a s Danish merchant vessel schlepping paper pulp to Turkey. Each evening. Sjón: Argóarflísin (The Whispering Muse) This is another fine tale by Sjón, mixing in myth and legend, with a more conventional story and taking the side, in part, of the common man oppressed by the powers that be. The story is narrated by Valdimar Haraldsson. Haraldsson is something of a dubious character. He had spent World War II in Germany, reading the news in Icelandic.