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Artist's Salary. A memoir by Ólafur Gunnarsson.
This is about Alfred Flóki, Degur Sigurðarson, and Steinar Sigurjónsson.
They knew they would be the stuff of some story, these three who were problem children in the atomic age, bohemians who shocked and impressed; misfortune fell upon them, they lived a life of struggle within and without – and tried to let pen and brush lie to their horror.
Writer Ólafur Gunnarsson was a good friend of the artists Alfreður Flóki, Dagur Sigurðarson and Steinar Sigurjónsson, controversial geniuses who lived their lives on the fringes of society. Here he takes a veritable rubber stamp tour – as Flóki would have said – of Reykjavík and Copenhagen in the 1970s and 1980s, describing with sensitive understanding, frankness and priceless humour his encounters with them and numerous other unforgettable figures from that historical period: cultural popes, country folk, world-famous writers, furniture dealers, bartenders, potential KGB agents, mistresses, poets and artists.
This is about Alfred Flóki, Degur Sigurðarson, and Steinar Sigurjónsson.
They knew they would be the stuff of some story, these three who were problem children in the atomic age, bohemians who shocked and impressed; misfortune fell upon them, they lived a life of struggle within and without – and tried to let pen and brush lie to their horror.
Writer Ólafur Gunnarsson was a good friend of the artists Alfreður Flóki, Dagur Sigurðarson and Steinar Sigurjónsson, controversial geniuses who lived their lives on the fringes of society. Here he takes a veritable rubber stamp tour – as Flóki would have said – of Reykjavík and Copenhagen in the 1970s and 1980s, describing with sensitive understanding, frankness and priceless humour his encounters with them and numerous other unforgettable figures from that historical period: cultural popes, country folk, world-famous writers, furniture dealers, bartenders, potential KGB agents, mistresses, poets and artists.