From the Ravines

Lehtimäki, Konrad, 1883-1937Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 176K words
Chapters: 18

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Rotkoista by Konrad LehtimäkiAuthor: Lehtimäki, Konrad, 1883-1937,Language: Finnish, Class: PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures, Release Date: Jun 20, 2016

Editor's review

Rotkoista is a Finnish-language work by the Finnish author Konrad Lehtimäki, included among Project Gutenberg's public-domain eBooks. By classification it belongs to Finnish and Finno-Ugric literature; the author was active in the early twentieth century, a background that suggests the text may carry the realist concerns and psychological portrayal common in Finnish literature of that era. Since the available information provides only bibliographic details, readers should not presuppose a specific plot but rather treat it as an entry point to Finnish-language public-domain literature. Its value lies at the levels of language and literary history: on the one hand it can serve as Finnish reading material for observing early twentieth-century written style; on the other, as a textual sample for the study of minority Nordic literatures. Readers are advised to learn about the author's life and times before entering the text, and to avoid judging it by the expectations of English-language literature. Suitable for readers with some Finnish or an interest in Finnish literary history.

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First look up the life and times of the author Lehtimäki, then read the text
Keep a Finnish dictionary at hand, read slowly chapter by chapter, and note unfamiliar words and sentence patterns
Read alongside Finnish literary works of the same period to observe similarities and differences in theme and technique
If the language barrier is too high, read relevant English introductions first, then return to the original

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About the author

Lehtimäki, Konrad, 1883-1937 Author

Konrad Lehtimäki (1883–1937) was a Finnish author, seven of whose works are held in this collection. Public information about him is limited, and the details of his life are difficult to establish. Judging from the surviving works, his writing spans the novel, the short story and the drama: the novel Ylös helvetistä and the story collections Inferno, Kuolema and Syvyydestä take up themes of the abyss, hell and death, showing a sustained concern with the darker sides of human nature and with existential predicament; Rotkoista continues in the same austere vein. In drama, Spartacus: Viisinäytöksinen näytelmä ynnä Epilogi treats the subject of Spartacus in five acts with an epilogue, while Perintö: Nelinäytöksinen näytelmä is a four-act play, indicating practical work in stage form. On the whole his writing tends toward serious, sombre subjects and moves between narrative and dramatic genres.