Echoes of the North: Rein Sepp and Estonia’s Quest for Mythic Nordicness by Mart Kuldkepp
Two main factors contributed to the special significance of Rein Sepp’s Edda translation. The first was the atmosphere of hopelessness in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, when the Soviet economy, reliant on oil exports, struggled under the strain of the arms race with the United States. The consequences of stagnation were felt…
In a Dream I Saw the World. Doris Kareva’s Poetry in Italian
As though composed in another time and another dimension, Doris Kareva’s verses, in their dense brevity, offer an intense aesthetic experience, triggering in the reader a powerful and rarefied emotion – like the light of the North.
The Diary of Vaino Vahing by Rainer Sarnet
Vaino Vahing was interested in borderline situations, the shedding of masks, disoriented playfulness, and crossing limits that might reveal something essential or unguarded.
EstLit. First Issue. Editorial
The spring online issue opens with a selection of more or less experimental and transgressive texts, which, in some ways, echo the spirit of surrealism that celebrated its centenary last year.
