Same River Kaplinski Jaan
Same River Kaplinski Jaan First novel in English translation by one of Estonia's leading contemporary writers. The twenty-year-old protagonist finds an unofficial teacher in a retired theologian and…
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Same River Kaplinski Jaan
First novel in English translation by one of Estonia's leading contemporary writers. The twenty-year-old protagonist finds an unofficial teacher in a retired theologian and poet who is out of favor with the communist authorities. A semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman, set in the early 1960s, it narrates the efforts of Kaplinski's youthful alter ego to lose his innocence and attain sexual and mystical knowledge.
KGB and university apparatchiks take a close interest in the teacher-disciple relation of the two poets. After a summer spent in intellectual and erotic soul-searching, the sexual and political intrigues finally overlap, leading to a quasi-solution. The student outgrows his mentor, who despite accusing the human race of puerility, turns out to be a big and jealous child himself.
Same River Kaplinski Jaan
Selected Poems Kaplinski Jaan
Všade samé zázraky
Samé milé pitvorky
Všade samé opice
Same as Ever
Same as Ever
New Year, Same You
Same Time Next Summer