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100 1 _aLeino, Eino,
_d1878-1926
245 1 0 _aPäivä Helsingissä
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-09
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Päivä Helsingissä" by Eino Leino is a satirical novella written in the early 20th century. It follows Teofilus Malakias Tavela, an aging small-town tutor and ardent yet conflicted patriot, who heads to the capital hoping to reconcile Finland’s feuding political camps; around him gathers an ensemble of relatives, civic worthies, and café intellectuals that expose party rivalries, press theatrics, and social pretensions across a single day. With wry humor and brisk dialogue, the work sketches a society craving unity yet hobbled by vanity and self-interest. The opening of the novella introduces Tavela’s frugal life, his newspaper-fueled idealism, and his quixotic plan for interparty concord. Arriving in Helsinki, he trades sharp banter with his worldly nephew, lawyer Tauno Tavela, whose own courtship plans intersect with party optics, and is pointed toward the influential schoolmaster Lyy’s household. There, a stern father scolds his drifting son Onni, quietly plots a marriage for daughter Impi, and—alongside his committee-burdened wife—broods over social slights and the need for reconciliation. Between errands, the protagonist tries addressing a workers’ meeting and is shouted down, while a nearby café set of young writers and critics spar over art, journalism, and politics, sketching the capital’s febrile climate into which he has stepped. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Otava, 1905
653 _aFinnish fiction -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78646
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