Sailing Against the Wind - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor JAAN KROSS (1920-2007) was Estonia's most prominent twentieth-century writer. As a poet, novelist, and short story writer, he portrayed Baltic life under Czarist, Nazi, and Soviet occupation, always having to work around the demands of the censors. His best-known work is a trilogy of novels, Between Three Plagues, set in the 16th century. ERIC DICKENS is a freelance translator. In addition to two other works by Jaan Kross, he has published translations of two books by Mati Unt for Dalkey Archive. Although Estonian is his primary translation language, he has also published translations from Swedish and Danish. Klappentext "First published in Estonian under the title Vastutuulelaev: Bernhard Schmidti romaan in 1987 by Eesti Raamat in Tallinn! Estonia. Copyright (c) The Estate of Jaan Kross. Published by arrangement with Werner Soderstrom Ltd. (WSOY)! Finland." Zusammenfassung Jaan Kross's historical novel Sailing Against the Wind fictionalizes the life of Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935)! an Estonian-born inventor. It is a meditation on national identity! the relationship between history and the individual life! and the mechanisms of the historical novel as a genre.

Product details

• Authors: Jaan Kross, Jaan/ Dickens Kross
• Assisted by: Eric Dickens (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2012
• EAN: 9780810126527
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2652-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe S.; Writings from an Unbound Europ
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Fiction - General