Beschreibung
Estonian language. Octavo 14 x 18 cm. Weight 90 gr. Wrappers, 80 pp. The Book is in Near Fine condition without any visible defects, losses, remarks and stains. Fore-edge of front cover is slightly worn, cover shows some color fading at edges, damaged spine ends; internally small damp stain on the upper corner of few sheets in the middle of the book. Current the first antology by Barbarus includes verses from his first three published collections written during 1910-1920. These are debut neo-romantist Fata Morgana (1918), expressionist Inimene ja sfinks ( Man and the Sphinx , 1919) and Katastroofid ( Catastrophes , 1920). Author s poetry of this period expresses sensuatily and pathos of pleasures glorification, which had broken existed literary traditions and morality. Though he didn t directly participate in politics in the beginning, his left-wing thinking undoubtedly influenced his work. Social and political topics, such as the problem of the poor and the rich, corruption in urban descriptions, a wish for a better time and era, created by the working class people, depicted in poet s verses. According to author, this anthology is meant to build up the wall between the past and the future of his creative process. The expressionist period of creation was over, and gave way to more philosophical and allegorical poems. With unattributed avant-garde cover design, which manner of typography and the style is typical for Ado Vabbe, who created all the Barbarus books designs of that period. Johannes Barbarus (real name Johannes Vares) (1890-1946) was prominent Estonian avant-garde poet, doctor, and politician. He was a radical socialist impressed with the initial ideals of the Soviet Union. He published fourteen collections of poems, which style varied greatly during his literary career: early expressionist circles followed by avant-garde collections, which had been replaced by socialist realism works. After the fall of the bourgeois regime in Estonia he became, in June 1940, prime minister of the people s government and, in July 1940, president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR (1940-46). In 1946 he committed suicide. Ado Vabbe (1892-1961) was one of the most famous Estonian avant-garde artists. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 183
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