Katri Valas modernistische (In)konsequenz
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2000
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Adam Mickiewicz University Press
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In the article the authors presented the chosen aspects
of the works of Katri Vala, one of the most interesting Finnishspeaking
poets in the 1920s and 30s. She was part of the Nuori
voima (Youth power) group, formed by young Finnish poets and
writers, and later of the Tulenkantajat (The Torch Bearers). Her
early poems are marked by the modernist tendencies which
prevailed in the Sweedish-language poetry in Finland, foremost in
the works of Edith Sodergran.
The new way of writing, which Katri Vala perceived as something
natural and coming from her heart, was never difficult for her and
she never elaborated on it in theory.
The poems written by Katri Vala are considered to be a modernist
breakthrough in the poetry written in Finnish. The author,
however, did not strive to substitute the whole of the Finnish
writing until then, but rather to gain an equal status for the new
poetry.
Her attempt, as well as those of her colleagues, was unsuccessful in
the 1920s and 30s.
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Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia vol. 6, 2000, pp. 93-102.