>Latvia's top Symbolist/Decadent poet>Turned to antisemitic nationalistic neopaganism during WWII>Died in prison and unpersoned under SovietsBaltic anons need gather up and scan as many works by/about this man as possible. I am a sperg for languages and Decadence desu. I want to learn Latvian to read and translate him.
>>24826216The next best thing to heroic Latvianons uploading his bibliography (Internet Archive, LibGen, etc.) would be if anyone in general has advice for an Ameripleb on acquiring obscure foreign books for this purpose.
>>24826216Reads like neurosyphilis, the clinical development arc. Fall from one retardation into the next and lower one. As for Baltic literature, it was always aping the West. if you read your French decadents, you won't discover anything interesting or new in Baltic decadents except a horrible fifth rate pastiche of the original greats.
>>24826259>neurosyphilitic francopastiche>implying this isn't my fetish exactly
>>24826216I've come across the name before, in a very cursory glance at Lat lit of what seems interesting (together with Rainis). Any Latvian bros that have read him?
>>24826259I see in wikipedia there's a whole section of his bibliography for his "epic poems". I wonder if that's just awkward terminology for longer works or if they actually are true epic poems. In any case it makes me suspect there may be more to the guy's work than fifth rate Baudelaire.
>>24826216Say pērkoņkrusts if you want to say swastika in latvian. Latvians call it the thundercross.
