The Brothers Seven

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Seitsemän veljestä (The Brothers Seven), the 1870 Finnish novel by Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872), is one of the most (in)famously unknown classics of world literature—unknown not only because so few people in the world can read Finnish, but also because the novel is so incredibly difficult to translate, the Mount Everest of translating from Finnish. It is difficult to translate not only because it blends a saturation in Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, and the Bible with a brilliantly stylized form of local dialect, but because it is wild, grotesque, carnivalistic, and laugh-out-loud funny on every page. It has been translated 58 times into 34 languages—but somehow the translations always seem to fall short of their flamboyant original.

Despre autor

Aleksis Kivi

scriitor finlandez · 1834–1872

Aleksis Kivi (pseudonimul lui Alexis Stenvall, a fost un dramaturg și prozator finlandez. El este cel care a pus bazele teatrului național finlandez iar romanul său „Cei șapte frați”, frescă realistă a mediului sătesc, este considerat, prin avântul romantic, optimismul robust, remarcabila forță de surprindere a trăsăturilor temperamentale ale poporului finlandez, una din capodoperele literaturilor nordice.