The Daedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy
Johanna Sinisalo (ed.) - The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy
This is decidedly literary collection of stories from Classic Finnish writers. The only parts modern fandom are Sinisalo herself and Pasi Jääskeläinen (the guy who wrote that "enforcers" of the Finnish Science Fiction Writers attacked him).
Stories include Waltari's Conan-style adventure (I don't think he ever read any Howard but his The Egyptian was even turned into a stale Hollywood blockbuster with proto-Christian overtones). And there is a dream sequence of a pupil who hopes that a storm would destroy their school…
These stories are not the fantasy of a Tolkienian or sword & sorcery kind. Some of them are snippets of classic Finnish works, including the folk tale part of the Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi, the first novel ever written in the Finnish language.
Mirroring the melancholic nature of lots of Finnish literature, the cover of the book depicts Hugo Simberg's painting "The Garden of Death".
This is decidedly literary collection of stories from Classic Finnish writers. The only parts modern fandom are Sinisalo herself and Pasi Jääskeläinen (the guy who wrote that "enforcers" of the Finnish Science Fiction Writers attacked him).
Stories include Waltari's Conan-style adventure (I don't think he ever read any Howard but his The Egyptian was even turned into a stale Hollywood blockbuster with proto-Christian overtones). And there is a dream sequence of a pupil who hopes that a storm would destroy their school…
These stories are not the fantasy of a Tolkienian or sword & sorcery kind. Some of them are snippets of classic Finnish works, including the folk tale part of the Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi, the first novel ever written in the Finnish language.
Mirroring the melancholic nature of lots of Finnish literature, the cover of the book depicts Hugo Simberg's painting "The Garden of Death".