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Article: Cloudcomplexion. (fiction) (includes brief critical account and interview with him by Philip Landon before excerpt from his work)(excerpt)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Hans Selo (b. 1945) caused a sensation in 1970 when he published Diiva (The Poseur), a stream-of-consciousness novel about the 1960s, which won the prestigious Erkko Prize for the best literary debut. Fifteen years of silence followed before the appearance of Pilvihipiainen (Cloudcomplexion) in 1985, and a third novel is expected in 1996. A metalworker with no academic training, Selo is entirely self-educated. He is known for his linguistic inventiveness.. he coins words at will and flagrantly exploits the agglutinative and suffixal resources of Finnish. Pilvihipiainen, the novel sampled here, is not a work of plot, character, or action, but a fluid verbal tapestry. The ...
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