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Onnellinen mies (1976)

by Arto Paasilinna

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Siltainsinööri Jaatinen saa tehtäväkseen rakentaa betonisillan Kuusmäen pitäjään. Reiluna miehenä hän pärjää mainiosti työmiestensä ja kahden vaimonsa kanssa, mutta pikku pitäjän pamput alkavat heitellä kapuloita Jaatisen rattaisiin oikein olan takaa.
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This was Paasilinna's fourth novel, written the year after The year of the hare (like many writers of light fiction, he had a rigid schedule of one book a year). It's a satirical look at small town institutions in the same sort of vein as Clochemerle, Don Camillo and Main Street, but with a 1970s twist (and a Finnish perspective, of course).

Engineer Akseli Jaatinen is sent to Kuusmäki to build a new road bridge on a site where there had been a bloody battle between the Whites and the Reds in 1918. Although he's clearly competent and efficient, the conservative clique that runs the town (the mayor, the parson, the police chief and the headmaster) takes against him - he doesn't treat them with the sort of respect they feel they deserve, and he fraternises with his workers in a suspiciously "socialist" way. The civic dignitaries do their best to humiliate him and put obstacles in his way, and eventually succeed in getting him dismissed from his post. But Jaatinen isn't beaten as easily as that - he comes back to Kuusmäki, and takes his revenge on them, one by one, in charming and subtle ways...

Not profound literature, by any means, but an entertaining comic read for a journey, with a few nice insights into the ways small communities can inadvertently turn to hypocrisy, self-interest and a closed mindset. ( )
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Siltainsinööri Jaatinen saa tehtäväkseen rakentaa betonisillan Kuusmäen pitäjään. Reiluna miehenä hän pärjää mainiosti työmiestensä ja kahden vaimonsa kanssa, mutta pikku pitäjän pamput alkavat heitellä kapuloita Jaatisen rattaisiin oikein olan takaa.

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