Mustaa ja kultaa by Heikki Asunta
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Mustaa ja kultaa by Heikki Asunta is a poetry collection written in the interwar period. Mixing narrative ballads, dramatic monologues, and quiet landscape lyrics, it probes the tension between darkness and sudden flashes of brightness. The likely topic is the struggle of damaged lives and harsh fates set against brief moments of grace in war, vice, death, and Nordic nature. The book unfolds in five parts, shifting from stark portraits to intimate
nocturnes and, finally, bare seascapes. Early pieces follow doomed figures and reckonings: an alchemist who dies by his furnace yet leaves a glint of gold, a tyrant lord’s fall, a fallen air ace honored by an enemy, shipwrecked daredevils, a street girl’s tender end, and a wry tavern cameo with Frans Hals. The middle section grows harsher, giving voice to the resigned, the condemned, the crippled, and the desperate: a limping wolf vanishes into night, a dancehall girl collapses, a last letter readies a noose, polar comrades turn on each other, and homages to Fröding sing of vagabonds and a ruined poet. Next come satires of literary fame and mourning, before the tone softens into love’s afterglow and loss—summer nights, a proud manor daughter, the last ship departing, and an empty room haunted by memory. The closing miniatures fix autumn, storm, and sea in hard contours. Throughout, terse images—moon and frost, rope and steel, smoke and surf—set black against sudden gold, holding pity and irony in a clear, unsentimental light. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Asunta, Heikki, 1904-1959 |
|---|---|
| Title | Mustaa ja kultaa |
| Original Publication | Jyväskylä: K. J. Gummerus Osakeyhtiö, 1929. |
| Credits | Tuula Temonen |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Finnish poetry -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78232 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-78232-4 |
| Release Date | Mar 17, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 150 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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