Book Review | On the way, the speech of the local people echoes as the author cycles from one municipality to another

Jouko Sirola lets hear the speeches determine Finland – but to what extent can the speeches be trusted?

20.2. 15:23

Novel

Jouko Sirola A wonderful journey. Work. 534 s.

Fact so, let’s go after the rumors and rumors. Jouko Sirolan over 500 pages A wonderful trip goes all the way to the edges of Finland. The journey starts from Pernaja, climbs all the way to Lapland and descends along the western border and the coast.

Sirola has been on the road before without Google and locators. The year 2012 Enchanted meadow told about walking in Western Uusimaa on an old map and information.

Along the way, the speech of the local people, on which most of the book is based or is based, resounds. To conflicting comments. To absolute and skeptical views.

Central person is called a simple journey: he just listens and records what he is told. In this book, Finns are a talkative crowd. So they glorify and blaspheme their own community and so do others.

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The speaker is usually a group, nicely a collective subject. They are heavily curtailed and generalized.

This is how Kemi speaks: “Trade union activists are not narrow-minded. They are just blown away by a spirit of suspicion, which includes cold-railed typing, women in purple say and glance at their men as if to tighten the invisible flame. ”

The fishermen of Pernaja already know that hundreds of festivals and mass fights took place a year before. It is read that the eagles are “foolish and laconic.” Or that the people of Pori are honest and say straight. There are probably hundreds of similar descriptions.

Not all not a mere whisper and fabulation on Sirola’s ride. Accurate landscape descriptions bring the necessary variation to the speakers ’choir. And the facts are involved pretty much in the end, as long as they fall into the mouths of local speakers. A few times it slips out as if from the perspective of an omniscient narrator.

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As Sirola writes as the journey progresses in the border region that the identity of the nation would have to be rethought as a result of the alliance, it is already an essay and a speech of the intelligent.

Yes, it could be added. Sirola’s idea is great, and so is the implementation. It’s hard to compare to others, though Veikko Huovinen With knives flashes in the mind a couple of times.

The idea is also insanely bold. The facts are needed, not the hearsay. A wonderful trip manages to show how much we really depend on hearsay. Or at least it asks us to what extent we really look at the world on facts.

And what are they in the end?

And yet the book often moves on concrete concerns. People’s speeches are also reminiscent of the economic structure of each region. The extent to which people live according to production and division of labor also shapes the worldview and threats.

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There are reminders of the change in nature: “The species of forests are becoming poorer, small mammals are disappearing,” says “wool coat” in Kokkola.

In this respect A wonderful trip it also drops nasty facts, even though its perspective is constantly neutral on the listener and observer.

Towards the end, there are more individual people as speakers. There are other speakers, such as the Pori spirit or Espoo surveillance cameras.

Novel, if this is named as such, is only too broad for one reading. At least in Lapland, the delay is too long. There is a lot of talk about reindeer herders, and the fact that reindeer just don’t show up.

Best A wonderful trip works in small episodes at a time, albeit in sharply fictional weekly or daily stories, one place at a time.

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