Väinö Linnan Tuntematon sotilas konfliktiromaanina : normistojen taistelu

Väinö Linna's novel "The Unknown Soldier" (1954) aroused more debate than any other work to date in Finland. A particular object of debate was his depiction of the Finnish soldier. Linna consciously set about destroying the myth of the idealistic Finnish soldier figure of J. L. Runeberg's 'Ensign Stool'. In thus doing, he assumed a position of conflict against the prevailing attitudes to the Finnish soldier. Väinö Linna's novel, however, also contains a powerful structural conflict. The progress of the plot relies integrally on the conflict inherent in it. His method in this regard is dialectical. A frame of reference for the conflict in the novel, as well as a code explaining it, is to be …

Eino Leino ja Viro : tutkimus Eino Leinon virolaisaiheisesta tuotannosta ja hänen suhteestaan Viroon, sen kirjallisuuteen ja kirjailijoihin

The aim of this study is to shed further light on the relationship of Eino Leino, one of the most prominent Finnish lyric poets, to our ethnic relations, the Estonians, as well as on the Estonian influence to be found in his work. In studies to date, Eino Leino's interest in Estonia has, at most, been mentioned in footnotes, and other like comments, The method of this study is biographic-genetic, although basically the study belongs to the comparative study realm. The origin of the relations between Finland and Estonia is to be found in the age of National Romanticism in the 19th century. Both countries underwent a drive for the advancement of their respective national cultures, in the nati…

Eino Leino ja Italia : tutkimus kulttuurivaikutuksesta ja -vaikutteista

Towards the end of the 19th century Finnish writers discovered Italian literature and also ltaly, the country. Several of them have had a marked effect on Finnish-Italian cultural relations, but of them, Eino Leino's contribution is the most significant in this regard, since he made a translation of the whole of Dante's "Divine Comedy" (1912-1914), thereby earning himself a permanent -position in Italo-Finnish literary relations. Leino was in Italy in the winter of 1908-1909. This trip had a profound effect in the writing of Leino's novel "Onnen orja" ("Slave of Happiness") (1913), this being the first Finnish novel with Italy as the milieu. In "Onnen orja", as in ali the novels of the slav…

Einari Vuorelan lyriikasta

Virolaisesta kirjallisuudesta : linjoja, arviointeja, kirjailijakuvia

Kaunis ja ruma Noitaympyrässä : Pentti Haanpään estetiikkaa

This paper deals with the aesthetic modifications of the beautiful and the ugly as embodied in Pentti Haanpää's (1905-1955) novel Noitaympyrä, written as early as the 1930's, but published only posthumously because of its political sensitivity. Pentti Haanpää has often been considered merely a naturalistic social critic, yet even in his works aesthetic modifications appear as a significant element. Haanpää definitely has his own aesthetic. The method applied in this paper is close textual analysis. Although the autobiographical origin of Haanpää's natural aesthetic values is evident, the biographical approach does not account for his aesthetic to a remarkable degree. The purpose given to be…

Viro : kirjallisuus kansakunnan kuvastimena