Are there any literary works worth reading from this region?I only know of Ibsen's plays and Andersen's tales.
Kierkegaard
>>24723588I said worth reading.
The fucking Sagas. Read the fucking Svarfdæla and watch some spiteful little viking slaughter all of his neighbor's young children because she had a hand the killing of his father (whom he had never even met, having died before he was born) and then realize that Odin is a fucking pussy who gets unceremoniously eaten by an overgrown dog while a giant black guy burns his creation to the ground.
The Moomin comics are finnish :)
Knut Hamsun
aniara is pretty good, scifi epic poem about a doomed colony ship. also the poetic edda and skaldic poems translated by lee Hollander, alliterative verse (especially with hollander's use of almost entirely Anglo-Saxon derived words) has a galloping quality to it that works well for epic themes while not being too slow and plodding, and the Jennings can be fun.
Under the North Star and Unknown Soldier.The only purely Finnish works worth reading.
>>24724325second this
>>24724325Especially hunger and mysteries.Thomas espedal is pretty good too.
>>24723605He is
the stuff really worth reading is only accessible through knowing the languages
Pentti Linkola
Arrow-Odd's Saga.
Strindberg, Lagerlöf, Lagerkvist, Söderberg, Hamsun, Nikanor Teratologen, Sæterbakken, Tove Jansson, Knausgård, Alfred Hauge (not translated afaik), Kielland, Garborg, Thorkild Hansen, Jon Fosse, Undset, Hans Jaeger, Bjørneboe, LaxnessSome personal favs
>>24725025Reading Nikanor Teratologen in English seems utterly pointless.
>>24724280This is very cute and comfy. Thank you.
Most good finnish stuff is untranslated. If you manage to learn the language, these are a must-read:>Volter Kilpi - Alastalon Salissa(In Alastalo's Hall)>Joel Lehtonen - Putkinotko>Timo K. Mukka - Maa On Syntinen Laulu(Land Is a Sinful Song)>Olavi Paavolainen - Synkkä Yksinpuhelu (Dark Soliloquy)Translated is normie stuff like>Mika Waltari - The Egyptian>Väinö Linna - The Unknown SoldierWhich are good, but nothing groundbreaking.
>>24725025Lagerlof is what I came here for. >>>Gosta Berlings Saga is a favorite
>>24725908Sweet, I gotta put these on my list, too. I could only find Alastalon Salissa online, so that local Proust is going straight near the top of my reading queue. I don't read enough in my native language. Maybe I'll find the rest used or something.
>>24725908What I‘ve seen of The Unknown Soldier indicates that it‘s critical of the Continuation War. Not just in an „it sucked“ way which obviously a soldier has the right to complain about—but genuinely critical of warring against the USSR whose constituents still have stolen Finnish land to this day. Are there alternatives, translated or not, which aren‘t like this?
>>24726030i would disagree with this. it doesn't concern itself with politics but it does depict the demoralized state of the troops and nco's near at the end of the war.
I wrote a book recently, but it hasn't been translated from finnish yet. It's pretty /k/ino IMO and I hope anons will read it some day. :)
>>24725908By the way, Alastalon salissa got translated to German as Im Saal von Alastalo a couple years ago and apparently Stefan Moster received favourable reviews for his work. So there's an option to read it in a major European language now.>>24726030You've got it wrong; it does make fun of official propaganda, but mostly in the "they said it would be fun, but it sucked" way. It's purely domestic criticism from within the system and doesn't really concern itself with the Soviets or their point of view.
>>24726030It's less that it's critical of the continuation war and more like it's anti-war in general in the same sense that save private Ryan is an anti-war war movie.It's a fictional story based on writers own experiences in the war. The book quite accurately retells different stages of the war and honestly describes troops changing feelings and morale in each stage.It's quite a good read and there's a reason it's heralded almost as a second national epic in Finland.under the northern star is his another great work but it's IMO bit sloggish to read trough. But I appreciate it for it's honest depiction on why and how working men fell for communist ideology and why and how civil war happened.
>>24726411Drop youe info. Is it on goodreads? Do you have a wikipedia page? What's it called? Finnish people and others who speak Finnish do use this site
Norway has a ton of amazing authors. Would personally recommend Tarjei Vesaas, Jon Fosse, Kjell Askildsen on top of the obvious ones like Ibsen and Hamsun
Why is Niels Lyhne so unpopular on this board?
>>24728319I just went to check it on goodreads and it had a pretty wonderful 5 star review on it. Funny enough the review was written today.>Do you have a wikipedia pageNot yet, but due to the books contents and largely positive reception I think I might get one. I wrote behind a pseudonym.>whats it calledIt was the pic related. Pyhä luvattu sota = "sacred/holy promised war". Google gets you around.>Finnish people and others who speak Finnish do use this siteI did my damage to finnish anons a month ago by shilling on Ylilauta.If you're genuinely interested there's this unexplored rabbit hole awaiting. books contents include>being radicalized by the phone screen>going to war instead of kms>2022 era memes and zeitgaist>drugs>homoerotica>racism, nazis>existentialism. I question the difference about living and being alive according to someone on the internet.>fun and shenanigans. narrative includes a lot of finnish imageboard vocabulary.>inevitable tragedy, leaking about the shooting of a surrendering russian>anti establishment mockery after returning home, calling local secret police CIA glow niggers, not getting a gun license for "being too based", calling getting diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder 'becoming a "very charming and sexy man of interest'" among other things>gets published, printed and shelved into the finnish national defence university's library among other places>finnish people from all backgrounds do a big "literally me" reading it>one imageboard user described it as "an important piece of work"wew
Sacred And Terrible Air is the only good book to have come from Scandinavia
>>24728504I prefer Peko by Anne Vabarna.
Give me some Nordic Noir book recs.Challenge: no depressed or drunken protagonists.
>>24728493Sounds awesome, would read.
>>24725156It's not.>>24725025This guy knows. I would also add Haugen; the one that wrote that pointillist poetry book Anne
>>24729393Thank you, kompis. For Noranons I'd add Steinar Løding, flykten fra ninive is great in the first two books, then it sadly trails off into pidgin slavery language about St. Croix. Interesting premise but not enjoyable to read such "broken" languageRemember there's a sale on Solum with up to 70% off
