dbo:abstract
- Mannorð ('Reputation' or, in the author's translation, 'Repute' or 'Ill repute') is a novel by Bjarni Bjarnason, published by Uppheimar in 2011. The novel was published in English translation in 2017 as The Reputation. The novel is in significant respects a response to the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis. The main character of the novel is in significant ways modelled on the real-life Icelandic financier Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, and the plot on Víkars þáttr, the second section of the longer version of the medieval Icelandic Gautreks saga. The work has been noted as unusual among Icelandic financial-crisis novels for exploring 'how, once Iceland joined the global financial machine, and contrary to its habitual self-image as a newly independent, plucky post-colonial underdog, it took on a significant new role in a neo-colonial financial system'. (en)