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100 1 _aLeino, Eino,
_d1878-1926
245 1 0 _aNaamioita VI
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-21
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Naamioita VI" by Eino Leino is a collection of plays written in the early 20th century. The volume centers on clashes between church power, modern ideas, class and wealth, and the demands of love and conscience; the first play brings an engineer, a parson’s daughter, an obsessive inventor, and a proud cleric into sharp conflict in a rural Finnish parish. The opening of the first play unfolds on a shabby croft at Midsummer, where Johanna prays while her husband Elias, a worn-out tinkerer, exults that his lifelong “perpetual motion” machine is finally almost ready. Their son Antti returns from America with Tyyne, the parson’s daughter, and the lovers debate work, progress, faith, and country, revealing Antti’s contempt for clerical authority and class privilege. When the parson, Pontus Marttila, arrives, he and Antti lock in a tense verbal duel; the father will accept the match only with a church wedding, while Antti insists on a civil union, leaving Tyyne torn. After the parson withdraws, Johanna and Antti speak of Heikki’s death and piety, and Antti rails against charity in place of justice; despite Tyyne’s plea that breaking Elias’s belief might break the man, Antti prepares to confront his father’s illusion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Yrjö Weilin & Kumpp., 1911
653 _aFinnish drama -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78517
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