
LEPPIRANNAN LAURI
JAAKKO NIKKINEN
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On his eighteenth birthday, a shy, frail young man sits alone at a dimly lit table, pen in hand, recording his thoughts in a freshly opened diary. The quiet of his modest home in a Finnish village mirrors his inner turmoil as he wrestles with feelings of inadequacy and fleeting bursts of ambition. He wonders whether he will become a farmer, a poet, or a teacher, and whether any of these paths can give his life purpose.
Through these restless reflections he glimpses both the allure of a simple, steady life and the yearning for something beyond the familiar fields. The narrative captures the quiet desperation of a generation caught between tradition and the promise of new possibilities, while the diary entries reveal a mind both fragile and fiercely inquisitive. Listeners are invited to follow his tentative steps toward self‑discovery, feeling the weight of each uncertain choice.
Language
fi
Duration
~5 hours (313K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
Dec 3, 2017
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1884–1946
A Finnish farmer-writer from Laihia, he brought rural life and ordinary people into his fiction with directness and warmth. Writing also under the name Jouko Nikkinen, he left behind a body of early 20th-century Finnish prose that still feels close to lived experience.
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