TY - JOUR AU - Claudio Giunta PY - 2012/11/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - On <i>Gente indipendente</i> by Halldór Laxness JF - Between JA - BW VL - 2 IS - 4 SE - In discussion: Ed. Niccolò Scaffai DO - 10.13125/2039-6597/822 UR - https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/822 AB - Among the element of the human life, Michael Oakeshott distinguished the processes from the practices. Processes are governed by nature: birth, aging, illness, death, earthquakes, rain, gravity. Practices are humans’ decisions and actions: love, friendship, hatred, envy, vengeance, forgiveness. Gente indipendente by Halldór Laxness is an exception. In Gente indipendente the power of natural processes is predominant, incomparable to the power it has in any other modern novel; and the practices resulting from interaction between humans have a secondary role. ER -