#Jaan Kross

[shambelah]

Jaan Kross, "Kolme katku vahel", II köide

[wolfie-wolfgang]

Day Trip to Tallinn in Estonia

On the 7th September 2022, during the second week of my trip to Finland, I got a ferry across the Gulf of Finland, in the Baltic Sea, from Helsinki to Tallinn, the capital of the Republic of Estonia. From one country bordering Russia to another, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine, another of its ex-Soviet neighbours. Not that long ago, if I’d been visiting Finland, I would have been tempted…

[iishmael]

Global Reading Challenge: 138/200

A personal reading project, where I endeavour to read a book from each of the 193 United Nations member states plus 7 extra* ones. My main goal is to have fun and to learn, but I do have rules for myself:

The book should be fiction, and preferably a novel. I allow plays and poetry, but non-fiction only as the very last resort

The author should have the nationality of their country. If they have lived a good portion of their life there and genuinely represent the local culture, then it's ok if they've been born somewhere else

I want to read books that represent the local literary tradition. Preferably a "classic", a book that illustrates the local culture, or a book that is famous within the country. I avoid popular and contemporary fiction, and books that play outside of the country.

*Extra states have been determined based on UNESCO membership and personal interest where I want to read more books from. This is not a political statement.

The List

Afghanistan: Atiq Rahimi - Earth and Ashes

Albania:

Algeria: Albert Camus - The Stranger (FR)

Andorra: Teresa Colom - Mlle Keaton et autres creatures (FR)

Angola: José Eduardo Agualusa - The Book of Chameleons

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina: JL Borges - Fictions

Armenia: Raffi - The Fool

Australia: Doris Pilkington/Nugi Garimara - Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Austria: Elfriede Jelinek - Die Klavierspielerin

Azerbaijan

Bahamas: Telcine Turner - Woman Take Two

Bahrain: Sarah Al Shafei - Yummah

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus: Uladzimir Karatkievich - King Stakh's Wild Hunt

Belgium

Belize: Zee Edgell - Beka Lamb

Benin

Bhutan: Karma Ura - The Hero with a Thousand Eyes

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ivo Andrić - The Bridge on the Drina

Botswana: Bessie Head - Maru

Brazil: Paulo Coehlo - The Alchimist

Brunei Darussalam: K.H. Lim - Written in Black

Bulgaria: Elias Canetti - Komödie der Eitelkeit (GER)

Burkina Faso: Norbert Zongo - Le parachutage (FR)

Burundi: Samoya Kirura - La femme au regard triste (FR)

Cabo Verde: Germano Almeida - The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo

Cambodia

Cameroon: Francis Bebey - King Albert

Canada: S. Alice Callahan - Wynema: A Child of the Forest

Central African Republic: Étienne Goyémidé - Le dernier Survivant de la caravane

Chad: Told by Starlight in Chad - Joseph Brahmin Seid

Chile

China

Colombia

Comoros: Ali Zamir - A Girl Called Eel

Congo

Cook Islands*: Kauraka Kauraka- Oral tradition in Manihiki

Costa Rica: Carlos Luis Fallas - Mamita Yunai (Die Grüne Hölle, GER)

Côte D’Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus: Kyriakos Charalambides - Selected Poems

Czech Republic: Jan Neruda - Prague Tales

DPRK (North Korea): Bandi - The Accusation

DRC

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica: Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt: Naguib Mahfouz - Palace Walk

El Salvador: Horacio Castellanos Moyà - Le bal des vipères (FR)

Equatorial Guinea: Trifonia Melibea Obono - La Bâtarde (FR)

Eritrea: Helen Berhane - Song of the Nightingale

Estonia: Jaan Kross - The Czar's Madman

Eswatini: Malla Nunn - A Beautiful Place to Die

Ethiopia

Fiji: Rajni Mala Khelawan - Kalyana

Finland

France: Pierre Louys - Aphrodite: Ancient Manners

Gabon: Daniel M Mengara - Mema

Gambia

Georgia

Germany: Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

Ghana: Ayi Kwei Armah - The beautiful ones are not yet born

Greece: Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek

Greenland*: Knud Rasmussen - Eskimo Folktales

Grenada: Merle Collins - The Colour of Forgetting

Guatemala: Miguel Angel Asturias - Strong Wind

Guinea: Camara Laye - The Radiance of the King

Guinea Bissau: Abdulai Sila - The ultimate tragedy

Guyana

Haiti: Jacques Roumain - Gouverneurs de La Rosée

Honduras: Froylan Turcios - El Vampiro (SPA)

Hungary: Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon

Iceland: Halldór Laxness - Independent People

India: Rabindranath Tangore - The Home and the World

Indonesia: Eka Kurniawan - Man Tiger

Iran: Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl

Iraq: Andrew George - The epic of Gilgamesh

Ireland: James Joyce - Dubliners

Israel

Italy: Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Jamaica: Andrew Salkey - Hurricane

Japan

Jordan: Amjad Nasser - L'ascension de l'amant (FR)

Kazakhstan

Kenya: Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Petals of blood

Kiribati: Teresia Teaiwa & Vilsoni Hereniko - Last Virgin in paradise

Kosovo*: Flora Brovina - Call me by my name

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan: Chingiz Aitmatov - Jamila

Laos: Outhine Bounyavong - Mother's Beloved

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia: Bai T. Moore - Murder in the Cassava Patch

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania: Vingas Kreve - The Herdsman and the Linden Tree

Luxembourg: Norbert Jacques - Dr Mabuse der Spieler (GER)

Madagascar: Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo - Traduit de La nuit (FR)

Malawi: William Kamkwamba - The Boy who harnessed the Wind

Malaysia

Maldives: Abdullah Sadiq - Dhon Hiyala and Ali Fulhu

Mali

Malta: Oliver Friggieri - Koranta and other short stories

Marshall Islands: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner - Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter

Mauritania: Moussa Ould Ebnou - L'Amour Impossible (FR)

Mauritius: Ananda Devi - Eve out of her ruins

Mexico: Mario Bellatín - Beauty Salon

Micronesia: Emelihter Klieng - My Urohs

Monaco: Louis Notari - La légende de Sainte Dévote (FR)

Mongolia: Galsan Tschinag - Die Karawane (GER)

Montenegro: Petar II Petrovic Njegos - The Mountain Wreath

Morocco: Abdellatif Laâbi - Le bâpteme chacaliste (FR)

Mozambique: Mia Couto - Under the Frangipani

Myanmar

Namibia

Nauru: Nancy Viviani - Nauru, phosphate and political progress

Nepal: Prajwal Parajuly - Land where I flee

Netherlands

New Zealand: Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider

Nicaragua: Rubén Dario - Azul… (SPA/ENG)

Niger: Abdoulaye Mamani - Sarraounia: Le drame de la reine magicienne (FR)

Nigeria: Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Niue*: John Puhiatau Pule - The Bond of Time: An Epic Love Poem

North Macedonia

Norway: Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House

Oman

Pakistan: Jamil Ahmad - The Wandering Falcon

Palau: Hermana Ramarui - The Palauan Perspective: a poetry book

Panama: Ricardo Miró - Las Noches de Babel (SPA)

Palestine*: Ibrahim Nasrallah - Prairies of Fever

Papua New Guinea: Vincent Eri - The Crocodile

Paraguay: Augusto Roa Bastos - I the Supreme

Peru: Mario Vargas Llosa - In Praise of the Stepmother

Philippines

Poland: Isaac Singer - The Magician of Lublin

Portugal

Qatar

Republic of Korea

Republic of Moldova

Romania: Ioan Slavici - The lucky mill

Russian Federation: Leo Tolstoi - The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis: Caryl Philips - Cambridge

Saint Lucia: Derek Walcott - Omeros

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa: Albert Wendt - Leaves of the Banyan Tree

San Marino: J. Theodore Bent - A freak of Freedom: or, the Republic of San Marino

São Tomé e Príncipe: Conceição Lima - No Gods Live Here

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles: Antoine Abel - Coco Sec (FR)

Sierra Leone

Singapore: Cyril Wong - Tilting our Plates to catch the Light

Slovakia: Milan Rúfus - Strenges Brot

Slovenia: France Prešeren - Poems

Solomon Islands: John Saunana - Cruising Through the Reverie

Somalia: Hadraawi - The Poet and the Man

South Africa: JM Coetzee - Disgrace

South Sudan: Nyuol Lueth Tong - There is a country

Spain: Miguel de Unamuno - Abel Sanchez and Other Stories

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Sweden: August Strindberg - The Red Room

Switzerland: Gottfried Keller - Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe

Syrian Arab Republic: Ibn al-Nafis - Theologus Autodidactus

Taiwan*: Qiu Miaojin - Notes of a Crocodile

Tajikistan: Shavkat Niyazi - At the Foot of Blue Mountains: Stories by Tajik Authors

Thailand

Timor-Leste: Xanana Gusmão - Mar Meu

Togo: Sami Tchak - La fête des masques (FR)

Tonga: Epeli Hau'ofa - Tales of the Tikongs

Trinidad and Tobago: VS Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas

Tunisia: Albert Memmi - The Pillar of Salt

Turkey

Turkmenistan: Magtymguly - Poems from Turkmenistan

Tuvalu: Neil Lifuka - Logs in the current of the sea

Uganda: Okot p'Bitek - Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol

Ukraine: Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin

United Arab Emirates

UK: Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway

United Republic of Tanzania

USA: John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath

Uruguay

Uzbekistan: Abdullah Qoqiriy - Bygone Days

Vanuatu: Grace Molisa - Black Stone

Vatican City*: Andrew Graham-Dixon - Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

Venezuela

Viet Nam

Yemen: Abdul-wali - They die strangers

Zambia

Zimbabwe

[ancruzans-blog]

Vuelo estático, de Jaan Kross.

El destino de un pájaro sin alas es el precio que tiene que pagar por no hacer concesiones, esta es la resistencia del prisionero. Nada sabía de Jaan Kross (y es que, al parecer, hay cierta pereza por salir de los círculos literarios reducidos a unos cuantos autores pertenecientes a nuestra esfera cultural, como si no hubiera más literatura en el mundo), pero un día llegó a mis manos este libro,…

[iishmael]

Ulysses by JJ - I’m 1/3 done and I fucking love it. It’s a slow read, but I’m really savouring it, I just vibe with the writing sooo hard, I love the Dublin descriptions and Stephen Daedalus is my boiii

The Czar’s Madman by Jaan Kross (my entry for Estonia) - I started it on the plane today and I’m really intrigued. Diary of a dude whose sister is married to a rich weirdo. I love 19th century literature! It has mild gothic vibes, so curious to see how that’s going to develop!

Reblog this and tell me in the notes what you are currently reading and what you think of it so far

[forsoothsayer]

Discovering The World by Jaan Kross

All people were born By the blue sea. All fathers are bent over their looms Weaving the texture Their children proceed. All children run from the chatter of the loom To watch on the coast of the blue sea, With their toes in the water, Ships vanishing into the horizon. Because children must run there And ships must vanish there, And their toes must get wet. And everyone gets under way As everyone must set off. Everyone Some for the sake of all, A few for the sake of many, Each for their own good. Because everyone should discover their own world. On the way He should allay the grumble And smother rebellions Within himself against himself, For thousands of hands hold them back. The habit to keep to the coast Horror stories, retold for generations, About water monsters and live sulphur seas, And falling into nowhere on the edge of the world. Fear of icebergs the breath therof Having been felt with one’s lips, And of rages of fire, Having witnessed their outburst, And waterweeds resembling hovering green cords. And something so huge No full stop can be put after it: The unknown And they still reach their destination As everyone reaches there to a certain extent And discovers a new world, a new mainland A new island, a new islet, at least a new piece of girt, A new foot of ground for one’s heart or thought. Even if one has to wear His fetters of time and space, The irons of his own limits, Or shackles of envy of his mates, Even if it is later found that the ground he found Or the thought he thought, Or the love he loved, Is not at all the one he believed it was, Still, everyone is On behalf of everyone The viceroy of the world of his. Because everyone gets on the way And everyone gets across to a certain extent. All fathers are bent over their looms Weaving the texture their children proceed. And all people were born By the blue sea.

[unofficial-estonia]

K, so. For the past couple months I've been reading a lot of books by Estonian authors, as well as books about Estonian history and such. But I'm already out of content - or at least content that American google wants to show me.

Each article I've picked through always mentions the same handful of books - honestly the authors of these articles treat these books as if they're the only books to ever come out of Estonia - The Boy Who Spoke Snakish, When the Doves Disappeared, Estonian Life Stories, etc. And they're all good books, and they'd be fine suggestions... If I hadn't already read all of them?

Basically, I want to read more Estonian stuff, but I can't find anything anywhere aside from what I've already read. It can be anything from a self-published collection of poetry to a whole ass history textbook, I am thirsting for content at this point. Got any suggestions?

There's a person on Estonian tumblr who knows far more about Estonian literature than I, so I'll tag them too - @jumalrebane

Have you read books by Jaan Kross? The Czar's Madman in particular is one of his better works. His autobiography Dear Co-Travellers is also worth reading, especially if you're interested in Estonian history. It's an autobiography about his life, which includes time spent in a Soviet Gulag, as he was one of the Estonians who were deported.

Indrek Hargla has entire book series about Apothecary Melchior. It's essentially detective series set in 15th century Tallinn Old Town. A movie based on one of the books was released recently too.

Estonia does have quite a lot of literature, its just the availability in English that is the problem :( Estonian youth books "Nullpunkt" (Zero Point) and "Mina olin siin" (I was here) would also be my recommendations but I don't know if they're available in English and search made me no smarter.

[rabeimwald]

Reading List 2019-2020

HISTORICAL FICTION  Girl in the Blue Coat - Monica Hesse  The War Outside - Monica Hesse  The Things We Cannot Say - Kelly Rimmer  The Point of Light - John Ellsworth (along with the rest of the series) We Must Be Brave - Frances Liardet In Another Time - Jillian Cantor Black Dove, White Raven - Elizabeth Wein The Berlin Boxing Club - Robert Sharenow  The Divided Sky - Christa Wolf (yes, the one I’ve been ranting about for literal months)  Rose Under Fire - Elizabeth Wein (read Code Name Verity first)  Circe - Madeline Miller  Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller  Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (however heavily satirical)  The Gentlemans Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee  The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee Front Lines - Michael Grant  Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo 

NONFICTION  Blink - Malcolm Gladwell  Opening Skinner’s Box - Lauren Slater  The History of the Ancient World - Susan Wise Bauer  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari Second-Hand Time - Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch  Resisting Happiness - Matthew Kelly Czar's Madman -  Jaan Kross The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell A Concise History of the Baltic States -  Andrejs Plakans The Ascent of Gravity - Markus Chown The Russian Revolution - Anthony Wood 

YA LITERATURE The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo Annie on my Mind - Nancy Garden The Impossible Knife of Memory - Laurie Halse Anderson Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Saenz  Exit, Pursued by a Bear - EK Johnson   The Bees - Laline Paul All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven 

SCIENCE FICTION  Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffeneger  The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams  Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 

POLITICAL/CONTROVERSIAL THINGS  1984 - George Orwell  Vox - Christina Dalcher Nietzsche Reader - Friedrich Nietzsche Ethics in the Real World - Peter Singer Books v. Cigarettes - George Orwell

NOVELS North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell  The Secret History - Donna Tartt NOVEL The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Einstein's Dreams -  Alan Lightman Blindness - José Saramago

MISC  The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton  Macbeth - William Shakespeare  The Hatred Of Poetry - Ben Lerner  Nothing - Janne Teller  Reconstructing Amelia - Kimberly McCreight   Incarnadine - Mary Szybist  Yougo Senki - Carlo Zen  Othello - William Shakespeare 

[herederosdelkaos]

Texto perteneciente al libro «Vuelo estático» del escritor estonio Jaan Kross

[the-new-royalty-world-me]

Book review : De gek van de tsaar

Book review : De gek van de tsaar

De gek van de tsaar Auteur: Jaan Kross Uitgever: Prometheus 9789044644173

Estland aan het begin van de negentiende eeuw: de edelman Timotheus von Bock heeft de tsaar de dure eed gezworen altijd en over alles niets dan de waarheid te zeggen. Maar als hij Alexander I een zeer openhartig memorandum zendt waarin hij het corrupte Russische regime aan de schandpaal nagelt, verdwijnt hij in de kerkers…

[doodle123de]

Heute hat Google einen Doodle mit dem Thema "100. Geburtstag von Jaan Kross" veröffentlicht :)

#google #doodle #design

Mehr dazu hier: http://doodle123.info/100-geburtstag-von-jaan-kross/

[madjacks]

Jaan Kross’ 100th Birthday http://bit.ly/3268JGr

[ancruzans-blog]

[doodle123en]

Google just released a new Doodle. It's about "Jaan Kross’ 100th Birthday" :)

#google #doodle #design

Find out more: http://en.doodle123.info/jaan-kross-100th-birthday/

[brothuania]

tag game!

tagged by @livefromvietnam thank you!! c:

Rules: Tag 9 people. @serniik @broskadoodle @jedifeferi @navahrudak 

Last song I listened to: W dzikie wino zaplątani by Zakopower

Last book you read/listened to: Last book completed was Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg, currently reading War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans and The Czar’s Madman by Jaan Kross

Favourite color: navy blue

Top three shows: Brooklyn Nine Nine, Carmilla, A Series of Unfortunate Events

Top three characters: Jehan Prouvaire from Les Mis, Wirt from Over the Garden Wall, Rhy Maresh from A Darker Shade of Magic

Top three ships: no

2) Rules: BOLD the statements that are true for you!

APPEARANCE: I am 5'7" or taller: For those who use m (1,70m) I wear glasses I have at least one tattoo I have at least one piercing I have blonde hair I have brown eyes I have short hair My abs are at least somewhat defined I have or have had braces

PERSONALITY: I love meeting new people People tell me that I’m funny Helping others with their problems is a big priority for me I enjoy physical challenges I enjoy mental challenges I’m playfully rude with people I know well I started saying something ironically and now I can’t stop saying it There is something I would change about my personality

ABILITY: I can sing well I can play an instrument I can do over 30 pushups without stopping I’m a fast runner I can draw well I have a good memory I’m good at doing math in my head I can hold my breath underwater for over a minute I have beaten at least 2 people in arm wrestling I know how to cook at least 3 meals from scratch I know how to throw a proper punch

HOBBIES: I enjoy playing sports I’m on a sports team at my school or somewhere else I’m in an orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else I have learned a new song in the past week I work out at least once a week I’ve gone for runs at least once a week in the warmer months I have drawn something in the past month I enjoy writing FANDOMS ARE MY #1 PASSION I do or have done martial arts

EXPERIENCES: I have had my first kiss I have had alcohol I have scored the winning goal in a sports game I have watched an entire season of a TV show in one sitting I have been at an overnight event I have been in a taxi I have been in the hospital or ER in the past year I have beaten a video game in one day I have visited another country I have been to one of my favorite band’s concerts

RELATIONSHIPS: I’m in a relationship I have a crush on a celebrity I have a crush on someone I know I have been in at least 3 relationships I have never been in a relationship I have asked someone out or admitted my feelings to them I get crushes easily I have had a crush on someone for over a year I have been in a relationship for at least a year I have had feelings for a friend

MY LIFE: I have at least one person I consider a “best friend” I live close to my school My parents are still together I have at least one sibling I live in the united states There is snow right now where I live I have hung out with a friend in the past month I have a smartphone I have at least 15 CD’s I share my room with someone

RANDOM SHIT: I have breakdanced I know a person named Jamie I have had a teacher with a last name that’s hard to pronounce I have dyed my hair I’m listening to one song on repeat right now I have punched someone in the past week I know someone who has gone to jail I have broken a bone I have eaten a waffle today I know what I want to do with my life I speak at least 2 languages I have made a new friend in the past year I have been given flowers before

[unofficial-estonia]

I'm not sure if you've answered this before but, could you recommend estonian books that are considered classics and have also been translated to english? ^^

Outside usual classics such as Truth and Justice, perhaps Jaan Kross’ “The Czar’s Madman”