The Bombardment of Åbo : : A Novella Based on a Historical Event in Modern Times / / Carl Spitteler.
This farcical tale tells how the British bombing of a Finnish port city changes the life of the Russian governor, his wife, their cook, and the cook's Finnish fiancé. The story takes place during a Nordic offshoot of the Crimean conflict, known as the Åland War, in which a British-French naval...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (110 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BOMBARDMENT OF ÅBO -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR |
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| Summary: | This farcical tale tells how the British bombing of a Finnish port city changes the life of the Russian governor, his wife, their cook, and the cook's Finnish fiancé. The story takes place during a Nordic offshoot of the Crimean conflict, known as the Åland War, in which a British-French naval force attacked military and civilian facilities on the coast of the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1854–1856. The location of the novella is Åbo, today’s Turku, where soldiers in the Russian garrison enjoy life, Cossacks dance and drink, and the governor’s wife is preoccupied about her cook’s marriage to a local lad, against which the governor and the English admiral devise a plot. After studies in Swiss and German universities, Carl Spitteler worked in Russia between 1871 and 1879 as the private tutor in the family of a Finnish general. In the process he came to know Finnish and Baltic noble families in Saint Petersburg and Finland. He published this story in 1889, and went on to become, in 1919, the first Swiss winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. The Bombardment of Åbo is an ironic Western gaze on life and culture in the Tsarist Empire. Spitteler’s deeply held pacifism breaks through his otherwise sarcastic description of the characters and episodes in the novella. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9789633865743 9783110780482 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110993752 9783110993738 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9789633865743?locatt=mode:legacy |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Carl Spitteler. |