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Summary: The narrative art of Marja-Liisa Vartio.
Marja-Liisa Vartio oli kirjailijana lakonisen ilmaisun tyylitaituri, mutta persoonana pidättyvän 1950-luvun vastakohta, kirjallisten piirien hämmentävä outolintu.Marja-Liisa Vartion (1924 1966) teokset ovat kirjallisuutemme hienostuneinta päänsisäisen todellisuuden kuvausta. Kommunikaation vaikeuden kuvaajana Vartio on monen kirjailijan esikuva, mutta tosielämässä hän ei jättänyt mietteitään tulkintojen varaan. Ensimmäisessä Vartio-elämäkerrassa hengittää kirjallisten piirien sensuelli luonnonlapsi, nainen, joka oli terävä suustaan ja tietoinen vetovoimastaan eikä tyytynyt 1950-luvun modernistien ironiaan. Hän näki ihmisten ja muotien läpi.Rikkonaiseen perheeseen ...
This study examines the narrative tools, techniques, and structures that Marja-Liisa Vartio, a classic of Finnish post-war modernism, used in presenting fictional minds in her narrative prose. The study contributes to the academic discussion on formal and thematic conventions of modernism by addressing the ways in which fictional minds work in interaction, and in relation to the enfolding fictional world. The epistemic problem of how accurately the world, the self, and the other can be known is approached by analyzing two co-operating ways of portraying fictional minds, both from external and internal perspectives. The external perspective relies on detachment and emotional restraint dominat...
Summary: On the prose rhythm in Finnish : a comparative study with reference ot works of Aino Kallas ja Marja-Liisa Vartio.
Summary: On the prose rhythm in Finnish : a comparative study with reference ot works of Aino Kallas ja Marja-Liisa Vartio.
This study examines the narrative tools, techniques, and structures that Marja-Liisa Vartio, a classic of Finnish post-war modernism, used in presenting fictional minds in her narrative prose. The study contributes to the academic discussion on formal and thematic conventions of modernism by addressing the ways in which fictional minds work in interaction, and in relation to the enfolding fictional world. The epistemic problem of how accurately the world, the self, and the other can be known is approached by analyzing two co-operating ways of portraying fictional minds, both from external and internal perspectives. The external perspective relies on detachment and emotional restraint dominat...
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This novel from the Finnish Vartio, is set in a Finnish village during the early 20th century. The mentally unstable title character, Adele, argues with her maid, Alma, about the fire that consumed the parsonage, and soon moves on to other topics. An obsession with a set of stuffed birdsp̮assed down from the parson's uncle to the parson, to his wife and, finally, to Alma's care-serves as a major focus, with ample space devoted to addiction, sexual violence and other topics.