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The Last Days of Maiju Lassila, Paperback / softback Book

The Last Days of Maiju Lassila Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Who wrote this novel?

      J I Vatanen was not a real person; he was a heteronym-a characterized pseudonym-of a strange Finnish author named Algot Untola, who was arrested as a Red agitator at the end of the Finnish Civil War in May, 1918, and summarily sentenced and shot.

      This novel is "J I Vatanen's" "memoir" of the events leading up to that violent death and its tragicomic aftermath.

      But who wrote it?

      Douglas Robinson, a noted Finnish-English translator and translation scholar, claims that he "pseudotranslated" it-but what does that mean? A pseudotranslation is a hoax translation, one with no original. But if the hoaxer declares the hoax up front, is it still a hoax?

       

The Last Days of Maiju Lassila is a readable story with its backdrop in a volatile political history from the 1880s to 1919; but it is also an experimental memoir/novel/translation that toys with our "certainty" about reality.


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