LEADER 03415oam 22006854a 450 001 9910820276603321 005 20231004235357.0 010 $a615-5211-27-2 010 $a1-281-37688-4 010 $a9786611376888 010 $a1-4294-9886-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000478244 035 $a(OCoLC)647654515 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10191405 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223020 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11215780 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223020 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10181906 035 $a(PQKB)11522458 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137243 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10191405 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL137688 035 $a(OCoLC)926459767 035 $a(OCoLC)1273305790 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78158 035 $a(DE-B1597)633586 035 $a(DE-B1597)9786155211270 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137243 035 $a(OCoLC)1338020396 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000478244 100 $a20070712d2007 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe poet and the idiot $eand other stories /$fFriedebert Tuglas ; translated by Eric Dickens 210 1$aNew York :$cCEU Press,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007. 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 339 pages) 225 0 $aCentral European classics ,$x1418-0162 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a963-7326-88-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction -- Freedom and death -- The golden hoop -- Arthur Valdes -- Cannibals -- Echo of the epoch -- The wanderer -- The mermaid -- The air is full of passion -- The poet and the idiot -- The day of the androgyne -- Author's notes. 330 $aEstonian literature in its written form is little more than a century old. As Estonia was part of the Russian Empire, then of the Soviet Union, it is something of a miracle that the powerful presence of the Baltic Germans, the periods of Russification, and other more subtle forms of cultural pressure, have not eradicated Estonian as a serious literary language. One of the central figures to credit for this was Friedebert Tuglas. The nine stories, and the essay, featured here were written during the World War One, or in the first years of Estonian independence in the early 1920s. They reflect the troubled spirit of the times, but exhibit the influence of a wide selection of writers, ranging from O. Wilde and M. Gorky, to F. Nietzsche and Edgar Allan Poe. The subject matter of Tuglas' stories represented here ranges from a starving prisoner, via a luckless pharmacist's hallucinations from childhood, a wandering soldier who encounters weird spirits, to a young man sitting in a park, accosted by a devilish lunatic who wants to introduce a new brand of devil worship to the world. 410 0$aCentral European classics (Penguin (Firm)) 606 $aEstonian fiction$y20th century 606 $aEstonian literature$y20th century 615 0$aEstonian fiction 615 0$aEstonian literature 676 $a894/.545 700 $aTuglas$b Friedebert$f1886-1971.$01636618 701 $aDickens$b Eric$01636619 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820276603321 996 $aThe poet and the idiot$93977969 997 $aUNINA