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TARUA JA TOTTA ELÄMÄSTÄNI I
TARUA JA TOTTA - ENSIMMÄINEN OSA
ENSIMMÄINEN KIRJA.
TOINEN KIRJA.
KOLMAS KIRJA.
NELJÄS KIRJA.
VIIDES KIRJA.
The narrator opens with a thoughtful letter to a trusted confidant, explaining his wish to gather the scattered fragments of his literary output into a single, orderly collection. He describes the excitement of revisiting familiar passages while also confronting the unfamiliar gaps that have long lingered in his memory. This careful inventory becomes a window into his early ambitions, the restless experimentation that marked his youth, and the evolving principles that guided his pen.
As he delves deeper, the voice reflects on the many unfinished drafts and abandoned ideas that still haunt his imagination. He recounts the influence of friends, mentors, and the shifting cultural climate that shaped his creative choices, and hints at the tension between public expectation and private curiosity. The narrative offers a candid glimpse of an artist wrestling with his own legacy, inviting listeners to share in the intimate process of piecing together a life's work, one fragment at a time.
Language
fi
Duration
~7 hours (435K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
Finland: Otava, 1924.
Credits
Tapio Riikonen
Release date
Feb 3, 2023
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1749–1832
A towering figure of German literature, he was a poet, novelist, dramatist, scientist, lawyer, and statesman whose work ranged from The Sorrows of Young Werther to the monumental Faust. His wide-ranging curiosity and collaboration with Friedrich Schiller helped shape the era known as Weimar Classicism.
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