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Article: FINNO-UGRIC & BALTIC LANGUAGES.(Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- March 22, 1999
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Finnish
Pentti Holappa. Ystavan muotokuva. Helsinki. WSOY. 1998. 476 pages. FIM 155. ISBN 951-0-22869-9.
Ystavan muotokuva (Portrait of a Friend), the latest work by Pentti Holappa, the author of some thirteen collections of poetry, six novels, two collections of short fiction, essays, plays, and radio dramas (see e.g. WLT 70:3, p. 732), won the coveted 1998 Finlandia Prize for Literature. The novel's esthetic of the sensual is viewed as a daring challenge to conventional literary norms. Harold Bloom in The Western Canon reminds us that, by their very nature, literary works challenge and compete with all other works of literature. To suggest otherwise ...