Book review|Heikki Aittokoski’s Kunno citizen is an easy-to-read romp, reminiscent of Mielsäpahoittä.
Novel
Heikki Aittokoski: A decent citizen. Gummerus 304 p.
Chat is a serious existential threat after working as a journalist for Helsingin Sanomat for almost 30 years Heikki Aittokoski in a comic debut novel A decent citizen.
“Finland is sinking into the quagmire of chatter,” curses the male narrator who appreciates Aittokoski’s silence and close communication.
The middle-aged man’s passion is hard-working sauna in the city’s swimming hall. According to Kansieliepee, Aittokoski shares the hobby of his main character.
From the narrator’s point of view, the downside of a public sauna is that you have to suffer from other people’s chatter there.
Whistle-blowers don’t really understand keeping their mouths shut on rafts.
Riesoja there are many kinds, from riotous groups of schoolchildren to studs and friction tires to brawlers. Why make noise when you can be silent?
The man has a clear view of acceptable sauna talk:
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The chapters have repetition based on the narrator’s sauna routines.
“The chatters don’t terrorize innocent outsiders, they communicate with people they know, i.e. each other. They leave the rest alone. Chatters, on the other hand, are voice-mail criminals recruited by the Chatterers’ Central Committee.”
The chapters have repetition based on the narrator’s sauna routines. The fellow bathers blabbing their vanities again and again spoil the sacred sauna peace, and the man can’t help but stare mutely at the opposite wall.
Aittokoski as a genre is Tuomas Kyrön About those who hurt their feelings reminiscent of an easy-to-read joke. A decent citizen the cover is also the same as Kyrö’s book series.
Faija jokes and stilted humor either entertains or it doesn’t. The best jokes have been put into the mouths of people chatting in the sauna, but the author still seems to get too much pleasure from inventing them.
Aittokoski also has aspirations for a deeper character description. There must be good reasons for the narrator’s manic pursuit of silence.
The attitude of the narrator and his brother, who lives in a nursing home, towards language is stretched to extremes in different ways. Whereas the narrator would like the whole world to shut up, his schizophrenic brother can’t stop repeating phrases from decades ago.
“Past is a wasteland, and it must be allowed to rot in silence”, the narrator concludes from a trip to the swimming pool when he needs to go home. Traumatic revelations begin to be anticipated well in advance.
At the end, the story elements are put together in a model way, as one would expect from a long-time writer like Heikki Aittokoski.
He would also have been allowed to wait for something on his sea roads A decent citizen more.
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