Jaan Kross (1920–2007)
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Mesmerin piiri : Romantisoidut muistelmat - kuten kaikki muistelmat ja miltei jokainen romaani (1995) 27 kappaletta
Kolme katku vahel. Balthasar Russowi romaan / 1. osa 9 kappaletta
Kajalood : [jutustused] 6 kappaletta
Vihm teeb toredaid asju 4 kappaletta
Ülesõidukohad 4 kappaletta
Voog ja kolmpii 3 kappaletta
Kivist viiulid 3 kappaletta
Lauljad laevavööridel : luuletused 3 kappaletta
Draama, Kogutud Teosed 18 3 kappaletta
Michelsoni immatrikuleerimine ; Tosin üksikkõne trummi, väntoreli ja torupilliga tumma flöödi saatel 3 kappaletta
Luule, Kogutud Teosed 17 2 kappaletta
Vahelugemised. [1] 2 kappaletta
Kogutud teosed. 4 : Taevakivi ; Kolmandad mäed ; Kahe kaotsiläinud paberi lugu ; Pöördtoolitund (1999) 2 kappaletta
Neli monoloogi Püha Jüri asjus 2 kappaletta
Vahelugemised III 1 kappale
Kolme katku vahel II 1 kappale
Vastutuulelaev 1 kappale
Het tegenwindschip 1 kappale
Kejsarens galning 1 kappale
Teosed 2 (Kolme katku vahel II köide) 1 kappale
Teosed 1. (Kolme katku vahel I köide) 1 kappale
Teosed 1 kappale
Omaeluloolisus ja alltekst : 1998. aastal Tartu Ülikooli filosoofiateaduskonna vabade kunstide professorina peetud… (2003) 1 kappale
Järelehüüd : [jutustused] 1 kappale
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Kross, Jaan
- Syntymäaika
- 1920-02-19
- Kuolinaika
- 2007-12-27
- Hautapaikka
- Rahumäe Cemetery, Tallinn, Estonia
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Viro
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- Estland
- Syntymäpaikka
- Reval, Rusland
Tallinn, Estland - Kuolinpaikka
- Tallinn, Estland
- Asuinpaikat
- Tallinn, Estland
- Koulutus
- University of Tartu
- Suhteet
- Niit, Ellen (echtg.)
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Born in 1920 in Estonia, Jaan Kross was arrested by the Soviets in 1946 and spent nine years in exile and labor camps in the Soviet Union's eastern regions.
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Timo's liberalism is also manifested in his marriage to Eeva Mättik, an Estonian who was a serf in domestic service when he met her. He has bought the freedom of Eeva's whole family, and sent her and her elder brother Jakob to be educated by a clergyman friend before they marry. Eeva is a very strong character in the novel, resourceful and tireless in her campaigns to prevent Timo from being forgotten about and eventually getting him released.
It is the nosy and cynical Jakob who narrates the story through his secret diary of his life with Timo and Eeva during the period of house-arrest. He takes care to give us the necessary context for Timo's "radical" ideas, which he classes as being almost as progressive as Magna Carta. Timo, after all, is a proud member of a social class that traces its origins back to the Teutonic Knights, and has spent the last six hundred years treating the people of the Baltic region as little better than beasts of burden. (Kross notes in an afterword that in addition to that, Timo almost certainly knew the family tradition that his grandmother was an illegitimate daughter of Peter the Great, and that he would thus consider himself to have more genuine imperial blood in his veins than Alexander.)
Of course, this book was written in the 1970s, and what Jakob tells us about abuses of absolute power, foreign oppression of Estonians, and the misuse of the mental health system to silence dissidents is clearly also meant as covert criticism of the current situation in the Soviet Union, and the Baltic States in particular. What he tells us about Timo's experience of imprisonment and solitary confinement has a very strong sense of personal experience about it.
I found this slightly unsatisfying in narrative terms because Kross is rather reluctant to go beyond the things we have actual historical evidence for, so for instance Jakob's imaginative solution to the mystery of Timo's death is only put forward as a very tentative hypothesis, and not followed up in any way. But it is very strong in giving us a picture of the social situation in Baltic states in the early nineteenth century and in analysing the complicated intersections between protest against an oppressive regime and real or simulated madness.… (lisätietoja)