The Nightingale and the King by A.H. Tammsaare
‘What does the nightingale sing about?’ he asked. ‘Of love and of freedom, our most gracious majesty,’ his servants answered him, bowing to the ground.
The Fourth Dimension by Friedebert Tuglas
The firmament swells over my face as a silken fabric. Wherever my gaze delves, it rises like a gothic arch into the heights, a tentpole holding up the sloping periphery. Like a blue-green-white tent nave, it has been thrown high over my being.
Francis Young on Lennart Meri’s Silverwhite
Silverwhite is a work of literary non-fiction of the historical imagination, and a great one. As Meri declares: ‘Literature offers not history but visions and, in the best case, historical possibilities’.
Asking the Big Questions: On a Contemporary Estonian Anthology of Plays
Written between 2017 and 2022, these works by Estonian playwrights bring surprising freedom and facility to reflections on historical events, with precise and biting revelations of existing social problems and an almost prophetic glimpse into the future.
