No one reads Aleksis Kivi. Bio from the Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy:
Aleksis Kivi (born Aleksis Stenvall, 1834–1872) is widely considered the father of the Finnish novel. Kivi also wrote poetry and plays which are now considered classic works, but Seven Brothers (‘Seitseman veljesta,’ 1870) is his seminal work and without a doubt the classic of Finnish literature; indeed it was the first full-scale novel ever published in Finnish. Although it is written in the spirit of realism, the novel demonstrates through the brothers the extent to which the world of myth and legend was very real and palpable, and fundamentally rooted in the Finnish mindset of the day.
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I’ve never found Seven Brothers homoerotic - maybe because it’s the book/movie every single Finn has to read/watch in...
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movie ‘Seven Brothers’ that came out several years ago is somehow based on this, I’d have to review it as extremely...
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“Writers no one reads” :D Except Finns. I’m actually supposed to be reading one of his works for Finnish class.
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