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100 1 _aTarvas, Toivo,
_d1883-1937
245 1 0 _aIsä ja tytär
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-04
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _a"Isä ja tytär" by Toivo Tarvas is a play written in the early 20th century. Set in contemporary Helsinki, it follows Leila, a musically gifted working-class girl, and her volatile, alcohol-dependent father Valtonen as they navigate poverty, grief, and the gaze of a judgmental society. Neighbors, petty officials, and students hover between condescension, opportunism, and genuine care, sharpening the drama’s class contrasts. It is a story of a fragile parent–child bond and a young woman’s vulnerability amid urban hardship. The opening of the play moves from a dim tenement wake to the bustle of the Esplanade and a bourgeois parlor. First, Leila keeps vigil by her mother’s coffin, comforts her timid friend, and recounts the death, while Emblundska organizes the peijaiset; Valtonen barges in drunk with a crony, bullies Leila for her mother’s earrings, and swings between bragging affection and cruelty as mourners sing and the coffin is carried out. Next, Leila sells lemonade, endures rowdy schoolboys and a wary policeman, hears Emblundska and Nanna boast of new status, and becomes the focus of two young men: one (Albert) warns her, the other (Savander) presses his advantage—culminating in his forcing himself into the kiosk and a violent struggle that Albert interrupts by smashing the window. The third act begins in the Pahlmans’ parlor, where domestic fuss and gossip about Senate work, social climbing, Leila’s progress at the music school, and her father’s decline frame the class-bound world into which the girl has been drawn. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPorvoo: WSOY, 1908
653 _aFinnish drama -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77399
999 _c118119
_d118119