Maailman toinen puoli : Kuvauksia by Heikki Välisalmi
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Maailman toinen puoli: Kuvauksia by Heikki Välisalmi is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The pieces trace human dignity and cruelty amid civil strife, poverty, madness, and exile, moving from Finland’s wartime fractures to Siberia’s bleak horizons. Themes of freedom, fate, and compassion recur as ordinary people—wounded youths, a disabled clerk, a fugitive madwoman, and exiles—are tested by history and by one another. The opening of the
collection moves through stark vignettes: in a burning northern city’s hospital two young enemies, shot on opposite sides of the civil war, quietly discover they both fought for “freedom” and fade in fever. A frail, childlike clerk named Matti briefly wields petty authority during unrest, then slips into obscurity, finally writing passes for the dead before joining them. A madwoman flees a poorhouse to the forest’s safety while the village trembles behind locked doors. Ieri, a deformed ward whose weekly joy is scrounged tobacco, dies when a drunk playfully pours pipe dregs into his open mouth—an act tinged with bitter kinship. Fate’s loops tighten as a Finn robbed in Warsaw later shares a Siberian sled with the same cross‑dressing thief, now an exile heading toward an asylum, and a “Siberian Christmas” sets political prisoners beside a peasant whose lost father was a Finn. The section closes as news of revolution finally reaches the steppe, and two far‑off exiles erupt in disbelieving joy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Välisalmi, Heikki, 1886-1947 |
|---|---|
| Title | Maailman toinen puoli : Kuvauksia |
| Original Publication | Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Kansanvalta, 1929. |
| Contents | Vapaus ja vapaus -- Lakkautuspalkalla -- Hullu nainen -- Maailman toinen puoli -- Ihmeelliset ovat kohtalon tiet -- Siperian joulu -- Kun sanoma vallankumouksesta saapui Siperiaan -- Ihminen: maailma -- Sydänsuvi: sydänten suvi -- Pormestarin Jorri -- Kohtalon suosikki -- Iso ryhmä -- Monni -- Ratkaiseva askel -- Runoilijan herääminen. |
| Credits | Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 40.9 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Short stories, Finnish |
| Subject | Finnish fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76577 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-76577-8 |
| Release Date | Jul 27, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 289 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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