ASSIMILATION – Eeva-Liisa Manner

Her work has been translated to many European languages. She wrote novels and short prose and original collections of poems, plays for theater and radio. She started as a poet in 1944. In 1921, EEVA-LIISA MANNER was born in Helsinki. Finnish poet and translator, she spent her youth in Vyborg (Viipuri). From her breakthrough collection of poems, she has been seen as one of the most influential modernists in post-war Finland.

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Eeva-Liisa Manner was a lyric poet and playwright, the central figure of the Finnish modernist movement of the 1950s. The years of war had shaded her youth. She was seventeen when in November 1939 the Russians had started bombing her hometown. To the armistice, Wiborg had been sold to the Russians, thus remaining behind the border. From those years she has had to reflect on the nature and mystery of time.

ASSIMILATION – I will show you a way that I have travelled. If you come, if you come back some day searching for me, do you see how everything shifts a little every moment, and becomes less pretentious, and more primitive, like pictures drawn by children or early forms of life, the soul’s alphabet, you will come to a warm region it is soft and hazy, but then I will no longer be me, but the forest.

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