Noor-Eesti nõlvakult : kahe revolutsiooni vahel (From the slopes of Young Estonia : between two revolutions) [Selected essays]

Gustav Suits / Richard Kivit cover design

Edité par Noor-Eesti, Tartu, 1931

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Estonian language. Octavo 14 x 21 cm. Weight 210 g. Wrappers, 176 [2] pp. The book is in Near Fine condition without any visible defects, losses, remarks and stains. Small creases across cover corners, front cover shows occasional slight rubbing to the edges, also front and back wrapper show some yellowing; internally fine. The group Noor-Eesti (Young Estonia) founded by high school students immediately before the revolution of 1905, became the most radical movement of cultural innovation, that drew together writers, students, and artists. Young Estonia decisively disagreed with the older generation of Estonian intellectuals, attempting to break free from the still-dominating German and Russian cultural influences and to reorient itself toward Scandinavian and Romance cultures. Suits emerged as the spiritual leader of the movement. The group published almanacs and, for a period of time, a magazine. Current collection of essays by Gustav Suits includes fifteen articles published by him mainly in Noor-Eesti magazines and Almanacs with the same. Among other important items considering principles of culture-making, here included two programmatic texts: Noorte püüded (Aspirations of the young) (here under the title Sünnisõnu) and Võitluse päevil (Days of struggle), both emerged with revolutionary ideas. Pre-revolutionary Noorte püüded offers an overview of the situation in Estonia and finally set some aims for future activity. The time was characterized by pessimism, skepticism, and lack of unanimity. This negative situation could only be overcome by the (spiritually) young. Education and culture were the means that could develop Estonian society. The culture the writer had in mind differed radically from the existing culture, it was European. Here firstly appears the main slogan of Young Estonia movement: "Let us be Estonians, but also become Europeans! Written at the apex of the revolution Võitluse päevil introduces the basic ideas of Marxism and the proletariat as a social class. Together with the proletarian struggle, intellectual life must have been changed. Criticism of the existing literature was here sharper literature was claimed to have a slave mentality and expectations for the future were much clearer too: a free social order and a free homeland. In Post-Revolutionary writing titled Kultuur ja poliitika (Culture and politics), Suits finalized the idea of the art world s special position, one that is independent of the class struggle within the ideas of socialism. Gustav Suits (1883 1956) was an Estonian poet and literary scholar. He is considered one of the most important innovators of poetry in Estonian literature, a spiritual leader of the Noor-Eesti (the Young Estonia) literary group, and also the founder of Estonian literary studies and first professor of Estonian Literature. Book's modernist cover design by Richard Kivit (1888-1981) - popular Estonian artist, particularly known as a book designer and illustrator, ex-libris creator. N° de réf. du vendeur 221

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Titre : Noor-Eesti nõlvakult : kahe revolutsiooni ...

Éditeur : Noor-Eesti, Tartu

Date d'édition : 1931

Reliure : Soft cover

Etat : Near Fine

Edition : 1st Edition