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_aLeino, Eino, _d1878-1926 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aTuomas Vitikka |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-05-12 | ||
| 508 | _aTapio Riikonen | ||
| 520 | _a"Tuomas Vitikka" by Eino Leino is a novel written in the early 20th century. It appears to be a sharp social satire and family drama in which the young geologist Tuomas shocks his distinguished clan by introducing his modest fiancée, Emmi Alhola, exposing rifts of class, language, and politics within a Finnish gentry household. Through vivid portraits—staunch patriarchs, urbane officials, and excitable idealists—the work probes nationalism, identity, and generational pride with ironic bite. The opening of the novel stages an idyllic summer tableau at the Vitikkala estate, introducing a large, colorful circle: Tuomas’s urbane parents, his domineering grandfathers on opposing political sides, elegant aunts, a zealous tutor, and a visiting German professor painting the scene. Tuomas arrives unexpectedly with Emmi and announces their engagement; the family freezes, then offers cool, formal congratulations, leaving the couple isolated. Conversation shifts into a heated quarrel among the elders over law, conscience, and survival under imperial pressure, while Emmi feels painfully out of place and Tuomas turns inward. The tutor then bursts into a bombastic lecture glorifying ancient Finnish culture and a “higher order” of justice, winning mixed reactions—piety from the old patriot, skepticism from the refined statesman—and the section closes by revealing the tutor’s own self-styled martyrdom and secret love for the spirited niece, Anna. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cHelsinki: Otava, 1906 |
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| 653 | _aFinnish fiction -- 20th century | ||
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