Suomalainen kärsäkirja
by Arto Paasilinna
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La 4e de couv. indique : Emilia est un prodige des arts forains. Belle e le phante de trois ou quatre tonnes, elle mai trise mille acrobaties et danse la troi ka et le gopak a la perfection. Son spectacle ravit aussi bien les spectateurs de son cirque que les passants dans les gares ou les passagers du Transsibe rien. Mais les lois se durcissent en matie re de spectacle animalier, et Emilia, en sa qualite d ́e le phante, se retrouve brutalement au cho mage ́Œ Lucia, sa dompteuse, ne show more peut se re soudre a abandonner son acolyte pachydermique, et c ́est ainsi que de marre leur improbable pe riple, de ferme en ferme dans les fore ts de Finlande, jusqu ́a un cargo en partance pour l ́Afrique. Petit a petit, les personnages les plus farfelus se pressent autour de l ́adorable be te, chacun portant secours a ce pachyderme rempli de tendresse qui partout ou il passe se me l ́enchantement et la zizanie. Entre deux amourettes, Lucia et Emilia s ́embarquent dans des dizaines de me saventures plus insolites les unes que les autres ́Œ show lessTags
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Die Handlung ist tatsächlich sehr ausgefallen mit vielen witzigen Einfällen. Nur leider erfährt man fast nichts über die Charaktere, selbst von der Hauptfigur 'Lucia Lucander' erfährt man lediglich Oberflächliches, aber kaum etwas von ihren Gefühlen, Wünschen, Einstellungen usw. Somit blieb für mich die Lektüre oberflächlich. Auch der viel gelobte Humor des Autors konnte ich erst auf den Seiten 182 bis 194 nachvollziehen, welche dafür aber wirklich genial geschrieben sind. Doch dann plätschert die Erzählung leider wieder nur so dahin.
May 22, 2010German
Pffff.... Long, sans rythme, personnages peu intéressants... Ce livre m'a donné un peu l'impression d'un pari de l'auteur avec quelqu'un, faisant venir un éléphant en Finlande. Franchement, je n'ai eu aucun plaisir dans cette histoire plate et, à mes yeux, sans intérêt.
Jul 6, 2018French
En mellanbra Paasilinna - men det är ju alltid kul att tillbringa några timmar i hans sällskap.
Mar 25, 2008Swedish
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Arto Paasilinna was born on April 20, 1942 in the Alakylä part of the municipality of Kittilä, in Lapland, Finland. Arto Paasilinna studied at the General and Elementary School Line at the Lapland Folk Academy. He initially worked as a journalist at Nuoren Voiman Liitto, Nuori Voima-lehti and various newspapers as writer and editor. At the show more weekly magazine Apu, he was an editor from 1968 - 1970 and later a columnist from 1975 - 1988. In 1975 he wrote The Year of the Hare in response to his feeling that journalism was becoming superficial and meaningless. The book was an immediate success and from 1975 on Paasilinna became an independent writer. He still writes journalism articles and has been a columnist on Finnish radio. In 2002, for Paasilinna's 60th anniversary, journalist Eino Leino published a biography of Paasilinna called Lentojätkä. Arto Paasilinnan elämä" ("The Flight Dude"). The same year Paasilinna published his own autobiography called Yhdeksän unelmaa ("Nine Night's Dream"). As of 2009, Paasilinna has published about 12 non-fiction books and 35 novels, with almost one novel each year from 1972 to 2009. Paasilinna's books reflect quite common Finnish life, usually from a middle-aged male perspective, and in rural Finland. His title Year of the Hare made the New York Times Best Seller list for 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Suomalainen kärsäkirja
- Original title
- Suomalainen kärsäkirja
- Original publication date
- 2005
- Disambiguation notice
- Original title: Suomalainen kärsäkirja
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 894.541 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Finno-Ugric languages Finnic languages Finnish
- LCC
- PH355 .P22 .S86 — Language and Literature Uralic languages. Basque language Uralic. Basque Finnish
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