/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15595848]

What is finnish literature?

[Anonymous No.15595860]

>>15595848

kuu mimiii kuuksmssssniimnis kuu moo kuu mosssiishmsmissihiisisis suomi kussossusnimsiusis

[Anonymous No.15595935]

>>15595848
Mika Waltari - Sinuhe
Aleksis Kivi - Seitsemän Veljestä
(Lönnrot) - Kalevala
Those are the main ones, you can argue about Tove Jansson's ethnicity if you like.

[Anonymous No.15595939]

>>15595848
It's good

[Anonymous No.15595963]

>>15595860
>t. Sofi Oksanen

[Anonymous No.15595978]

>>15595939
When I hear or read about Finnish bravery against the Ruskies I feel a pit in my stomach as I remember Finnish birthrates are so irreparably low, and that all their sacrifices were in vain. It's gut wrenching shit.

[Anonymous No.15596004]

>>15595978
Birthrates aren't permanent. We're in a situation where all the responsible humans feel threatened and tone down on children.

[Anonymous No.15596033]

>>15595848
Mika Waltari is great, The Egyptian is without a doubt his best work and the preferred starting point. The Etruscan is also great.

Väinö Linna is another essential writer, The Unknown Soldier (>>15595939) being the preferred starting point. But his magnum opus is Under the North Star trilogy, which is pure kino.

Aleksis Kivi must also be mentioned, I personally didn't care much for his work, but I can't deny the cultural importance of his works, Seven Brothers being his magnum opus.

The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna is one of my favorites, a fun picaresque novel in which a frustrated journalist, after nearly killing a hare with his car abandons his unhappy urban lifestyle and starts a life in the wilderness living off his cash savings, while nursing the hare back to health, adventures and unlikely encounters in the Finnish wilderness ensue.

Kalevala is an obvious one, it's great.

[Anonymous No.15596063]

>>15596033

>The Etruscan is also great

Based

[Anonymous No.15596085]

>>15595848

When you read the last page of a book, you finnish literature

[Anonymous No.15596151]

>>15595848
Nobody mention the guy that wrote about rings.

[Anonymous No.15596306]

Benis

[Anonymous No.15596370]

>>15595860

Haihtuvi nuoruus
niinkuin vierivä virta.
Langat jo harmaat
lyö elon kultainen pirta.
Turhaan, oi turhaan
tartun ma hetkehen kiini;
riemua ei suo
rattoisa seura, ei viini.

[Anonymous No.15596378]

>>15596151
You mean Tolkien, the author of Lord of the Rings™?

[Anonymous No.15596393]

>>15596370
>tfw the best poets of your country are songwriters

Katu täyttyy askelista
Elämä on kuolemista
Pane käsi käteen ollaan hiljaa
Pyydä minut aamuteelle
Anna vettä kuihtuneelle
Nyt on elokuu ja minä olen viljaa

En ilosta itke en surusta itke, jos itken
Niin itken muuten vaan
Ja muualla oon, ennen kuin huomaatkaan

Häntä rakastin paljon
Sua rakastan joskus enemmän
Ole mulle vähän aikaa hän

Ota minut sinun uniin
Vaikka nousen toisiin juniin
Nyt on lokakuu ja minusta näkee sen
Kun tulen kiinni sinuun
Jumalatkin uskoo minuun
Vaikka itse aina usko en

En ilosta itke en surusta itke, jos itken
Niin itken muuten vaan
Ja muualla oon, ennen kuin huomaatkaan

[Anonymous No.15596400]

>>15596393

Yes but only after Eino Leino

[Anonymous No.15596408]

>>15596393
Juice actually wrote proper poems too. Here's a couple of my favorites. I like his songwriting better though.

>Äeti, sellainen elämä,
>että sen voisi kirjoittaa näytelmäksi,
>mutta jos sen kirjoittaisi, se olisi
>mahdoton näytellä.mahdoton esittää

>pienet totuudet
>syövät isoa valhetta
>palan kerrallaan

[Anonymous No.15596499]

>>15596378
Let's just hope the Finnish anon doesn't see this post.

[Anonymous No.15597684]

>>15596499
The butterfly fag?

[Anonymous No.15597779]

>>15597684
Butterfly is from California.

[Anonymous No.15597907]

>>15597779

I always thought he was a known namefag from ylilauta, kishi kaisei

[Anonymous No.15597919]

>>15597907
Eri mies, samat verkkarit.

[Anonymous No.15597975]

Suomi on typerä ja tyhmä, mutta minä rakastan heitä joka tapauksessa

[Anonymous No.15597978]

Did you know that Tolkien's Middle Earth stories were inspired by Finland and its amazing mythology?

[Anonymous No.15597990]

>>15595935
They are all shit

T. Finn

[Anonymous No.15598203]

>>15597990
Kalevala is good, Sinuhe is amazing. Seitsemän Veljestä is quite meh.
You're probably a hurri or a helsinkiläinen.

[Anonymous No.15598211]

>>15595848
Finnish Bolshevik's channel on YouTube.

[Anonymous No.15598295]

>>15595848
swedish or russian

[Anonymous No.15598343]

>thread on finnish lit
>no one has mentioned alastalon salissa

God damn I feel bad for the non-finnish speaking people who can't read this, the best piece of Finnish literature ever.

[Anonymous No.15598428]

>>15598343
>written in a stream-of-consciousness style similar to James Joyce's Ulysses

[Anonymous No.15598557]

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Why

[Anonymous No.15598798]

>>15598343
>Kaikkiaan noin yhdeksänsataa sivua vaativan kokouksen kuvailun tunnetuimpia jaksoja on piipunvalinta, jossa Härkäniemen isäntä kävelee salin perällä olevalle piippuhyllylle ja valitsee sieltä itselleen soveliaimman piipun. Tämän harkinnan sekä siihen liittyvien ja liittymättömien ajatuskulkujen kuvailuun teoksessa tarvitaan noin seitsemänkymmenen sivun verran tekstiä (3. luku).
Based.

[Anonymous No.15598815]

Waltari wrote dozens upon dozens of books, but you should only ever read one or two. Read any more and you'll find they're all the same.
>baww women are evil, soulless creatures that exist only to take my money!
>baww I've lost my faith and nothing is true!
>muh alcoholism
That being said, Mikael Hakim is a lot better than Sinuhe.

[Anonymous No.15598980]

>>15598815

Cuck.

[Anonymous No.15599028]

>>15595848
This one.

[Anonymous No.15599169]

>>15598428
>900 pages of text spanning over a time period of six uneventful hours
>a chapter of 70 pages of a dude walking to a cabinet and picking himself a pipe
>one chapter is named " a chapter you can skip since nothing more happens in it than the rest of them"

[Anonymous No.15599317]

>>15599169
Based