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Article: Kodu on ilus.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
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As perestroika began in the USSR, in 1985, Mats Traat went public with a bildungsroman, Uksi randan (Alone I Wander), that amounted to a frontal attack on the Soviet system. Its young protagonist Kalju Soa, the son of deported parents, personified the Estonian version of "the loneliness of the long-distance runner," with a measure of Oliver Twist thrown in. Kalju's longing for roots and education sharply contrasted with the background of sloth, crime, alcoholism, and hopelessness rampant in the typical Soviet-style "communal housing" which Kalju was forced to share with a number of other rootless teenagers.
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