A ""documentary novel"", the latest of Estonian author Mati Unt's deadpan and playful works to be translated into English, about the little-known period in the life of Bertolt Brecht when the writer - having fled Nazi Germany - became stuck in Finland awaiting his visa for the United States. As Brecht, the avowed communist, continues the pleasures of pre-war bourgeois life, the Soviet Union is not-so-quietly annexing Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Both affectionate and irreverent, this is a moving portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest writers.
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Mati Unt was one of Estonia's most influential writers . . . [He] had a splendid detachment and a rampant imagination.
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This Book is part of dalkey archives Baltic literature series .the book is set in the early 1940s and follows a journey the German playwriter Bertolt Brecht took in 1940 fleeing germany en route to the U.S.A he had to stop in finland for a while whilst awaiting visa clearance to travel to U.S.A .the book unfolds like a docu drama with two main strands Brechtfs journey and time in Finland and also a history of Finland and Untfs own Estonia during the war years .We find that Brecht a socialist ,is what maybe termed nowadays a champagne socialist ,that when even fleeing his own country on the run so to speak still really wants the creature comforts ,as well as a mistress a fling with an older women a well-known Finnish playwriter .In the other strand of this novel we discover the soviets land grab during the second world war grepping Finland ,with a short and bloody warwith Finland that the soviets wrongly considered a soft target, and the Baltic states including Estonia .what happens once this has taken places the book banning by russians and new rules ,a new governor for Estonia named M.Unt no relative to the writer Unt points out ,we also get little glimpse of what happens in germany the oddness of the german leaders and what lead to Brecht leaving his homeland .This book is a wealth of info and pin points a small event i n a great writers life ,it isnft the easiest book to read but is rewarding in the end .It brings to a wider audience Untfs undoubted talent and unique style of writing ,and the translation is wonderful by Eric Dickens
This Book is part of dalkey archives Baltic literature series .the book is set in the early 1940s and follows a journey the German playwriter Bertolt Brecht took in 1940 fleeing germany en route to the U.S.A he had to stop in finland for a while whilst awaiting visa clearance to travel to U.S.A .the book unfolds like a docu drama with two main strands Brechtfs journey and time in Finland and also a history of Finland and Untfs own Estonia during the war years .We find that Brecht a socialist ,is what maybe termed nowadays a champagne socialist ,that when even fleeing his own country on the run so to speak still really wants the creature comforts ,as well as a mistress a fling with an older women a well-known Finnish playwriter .In the other strand of this novel we discover the soviets land grab during the second world war grepping Finland ,with a short and bloody warwith Finland that the soviets wrongly considered a soft target, and the Baltic states including Estonia .what happens once this has taken places the book banning by russians and new rules ,a new governor for Estonia named M.Unt no relative to the writer Unt points out ,we also get little glimpse of what happens in germany the oddness of the german leaders and what lead to Brecht leaving his homeland .This book is a wealth of info and pin points a small event i n a great writers life ,it isnft the easiest book to read but is rewarding in the end .It brings to a wider audience Untfs undoubted talent and unique style of writing ,and the translation is wonderful by Eric Dickens
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