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100 1 _aAckté, Aino,
_d1876-1944
245 1 0 _aMuistoja ja kuvitelmia
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-28
508 _aTuula Temonen
520 _a"Muistoja ja kuvitelmia" by Aino Ackté is a collection of memoiristic essays and imaginative vignettes written in the early 20th century. It blends autobiographical recollection with symbolic tales and dreamlike scenes to explore art, love, fame, jealousy, fate, and the ache of longing from a celebrated singer’s perspective. The pieces move fluidly between real encounters and lyrical allegories, tracing how memory and imagination shape an artist’s inner life. The opening of the collection moves from a striking dream about a snake-filled cup of envy to a heated affair between an actress and a writer that dims once physical passion erodes spiritual kinship. A gallery of rings becomes a treasury of memories—queens, mentors, a faithful childhood caretaker, and a poet—while meditations on love show devotion surviving disillusion. Consolation arrives through music and poetry as “the souls of the dead” speak, followed by parables of missed courage and punishing fate, and an image (Faleron’s angel) that rekindles the will to create. Other sketches show inspiration bound to sorrow, an exuberant hymn to the gramophone jump-starting a triumphant concert, and two contrasting unions: a marriage that withers and a free bond that, paradoxically, endures. Brief pieces portray a smile that persists even as photographs burn, a lovers’ plunge through snow to unite beyond judgment, and a wealthy woman’s inborn unrest. The section closes in a Paris studio, where a renowned painter claims to capture purity wrestling with desire in a portrait, as the narrative breaks off mid-thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Otava, 1916
653 _aAutobiographies
653 _aSingers -- Biography
653 _aAckté, Aino, 1876-1944
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76943
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