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Heijastus ikkunassa : kolmetoista novellia

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Solveig von Schoultz tunnetaan tarkkana, hienovireisenä lasten ja naisten kuvaajana. Tämä valikoima on läpileikkaus hänen novellituotannostaan lähes neljän vuosikymmenen ajalta.

Näkökulma voi kertomuksissa olla pikkutytön, nuoren naisen, vastavihityn aviovaimon, naimisissa olevan miehen rakastajattaren, äidin, vanhenevan naisen. Monesti on kysymys siitä miten mies ja nainen - esimerkiksi aviopuolisot tai äiti ja poika - puhuvat eri kieltä, miten heidän ajatusmaailman tuntuvat olevan valovuosien päässä toisistaan. Mutta von Schoultz ei syyttele eikä osoittele; hänen naisnäkökulmansa on samalla inhimillinen näkökulma.


Cover Illustrator/Päällys: Olavi Hankimo

266 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

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Solveig von Schoultz

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Solveig Margareta von Schoultz (5 August 1907 – 3 December 1996) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and teacher. She wrote poetry, children's novels, short stories, plays, and television and radio dramas.

Solveig von Schoultz was born in Porvoo in 1907 to Albert Segerstråle, a reverend, and Hanna Frosterus-Segerstråle, a painter. She was the youngest of eight children. She studied at the Nykarleby Seminarium during 1925–26, where she qualified as a primary school teacher. She worked as a freelance journalist for the Swedish-language newspaper Borgåbladet. In 1931, she married Sven von Schoultz, a lawyer, and took his surname under which she would publish for the rest of her career. She worked as a schoolteacher at Laguska Skolan, a private girls' school in Helsinki, from 1937 until 1972. In 1961, she divorced Sven von Schoultz and later married the Finnish composer Erik Bergman. She had two daughters, Ursula and Barbara.

von Schoultz made her writing debut in 1932 with the children's book Petra och silverapan. However, she was best known for her poetry; she published 15 collections of poems between 1940 and 1996. Her first collection of poems, published in 1940, was titled Min timme, and her final collection, published in 1996, was titled Molnskuggan. The themes addressed in her poetry include existential issues, womanhood and motherhood. She also wrote numerous short stories, dealing mainly with love and relationships, which were published in anthologies including Ingenting ovanligt (1947), Den blomstertid (1958) and Kolteckning ofullbordad (1983).

von Schoultz won numerous awards for her writing: the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize in 1947, the Swedish Academy of Finland Award in 1970, the Edith Södergran Prize in 1984, the Bellman Prize in 1986, the Nils Ferlin Prize in 1988, the Längmanska Prize in 1993, and the Samfundet De Nio Special Prize in 1996. Additionally, she won the Kirjallisuuden valtionpalkinto (State Literary Award) five times, and was awarded an honorary PhD degree by the University of Helsinki in 1986. She published her memoirs, titled Längs vattenbrynet, in 1996, the same year that she died.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solveig_...)

As a writer of poetry, short stories, and plays, Solveig von Schoultz is considered as one of the most outstanding artists of the Swedish language.

(from http://allpoetry.com/Solveig-von-Scho...)

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July 24, 2014
Monipuolinen ja loistava valikoima hetkeen pureutuvia novelleja. Tuli jopa välillä Munro mieleen: keskiössä on naisnäkökulma, ja ymonessa valikoiman novellissa kuvataan elämän järkkymistä. Lisäksi von Schoultz kuvaa seksuaalista halua upeasti (myös ikäihmisen tarpeita käsitellään), sekä hahmottaa dialogeissa konkretisoituvia valtasuhteita ja niiden merkityksiä yksilölle.

Vaikuttavissa kertomuksissa pyrkimys käsittää elämän merkityksettömyys sekoittuu yksilön vahvaan vaistoon ja tarpeeseen jättää perintö jälkeensä. Ihminen (usein nainen) on keskellä jatkuvaa kamppailua omasta merkitsevyydestään vastaan elämän suurta tyhjyyttä.
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