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Who amongst the following did not influence Halldór Laxness?

  • Charles Dickens

  • Bertolt Brecht

  • Ernest Hemingway

  • Sigmund Freud

Answer

Charles Dickens did not influence Halldór Laxness. This is because Laxness was a modernist writer, and Dickens was a Victorian writer. Modernism and Victorianism are two different literary movements, with different aesthetic and philosophical values. Dickens' novels are often sentimental and melodramatic, while Laxness' novels are more realistic and unsentimental.
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