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Title: Korven raatajat : Kuvaus torpparioloista
Original Publication: Oulussa: Pohjanmaan Työväen Osuuskirjapaino, 1908.
Credits: Tuula Temonen
Summary: Korven raatajat : Kuvaus torpparioloista by Vilho Haanpää is a novel written in the early 20th century. It is a social-realist portrait of Finnish tenant-farmer life, following the determined Aatu and his wife Reeta as they hew a homestead from deep forest while bound to the whims of landlord Puikuliini, with the sharp-eyed suutari Eero and the landlord’s aspiring son Jori sharpening the work’s social conflict. The focus is on dignity, toil, and the pressures of unfair tenancy that test a family’s resolve. The opening of the novel follows Aatu’s first trek into the remote Luolakaarto to begin “his own work”: felling trees, staking out a house site, and trusting a generous-sounding but unwritten promise from Puikuliini. Shoemaker Eero appears to warn him to secure a proper contract and to see the power imbalance clearly, but Aatu, buoyed by pride and faith in his master, presses on. Aatu and Reeta build a sauna, navetta, and finally a bright new tupa; they name the place Metsola, fill their table with game, and settle into hopeful domestic life. As seasons pass, children are born and fields widen, but the rent in labor grows, Jori’s snobbish “education” collides with Eero’s blunt justice in a fiery debate about freedom and law, and—ten years on—the rising weekly work-levy to the estate stalls their farm and sours their prospects. When an exploitative lease clause is floated, Eero confronts Puikuliini, is sued for “honor,” and punished—signaling how the system moves to break those who speak for the torppari. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 41.8 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Author: Haanpää, Vilho, 1872-1943
EBook No.: 76542
Published: Jul 21, 2025
Downloads: 183
Language: Finnish
Subject: Finnish fiction -- 20th century
Subject: Crofters -- Finland -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Korven raatajat : Kuvaus torpparioloista
Original Publication: Oulussa: Pohjanmaan Työväen Osuuskirjapaino, 1908.
Credits: Tuula Temonen
Summary: Korven raatajat : Kuvaus torpparioloista by Vilho Haanpää is a novel written in the early 20th century. It is a social-realist portrait of Finnish tenant-farmer life, following the determined Aatu and his wife Reeta as they hew a homestead from deep forest while bound to the whims of landlord Puikuliini, with the sharp-eyed suutari Eero and the landlord’s aspiring son Jori sharpening the work’s social conflict. The focus is on dignity, toil, and the pressures of unfair tenancy that test a family’s resolve. The opening of the novel follows Aatu’s first trek into the remote Luolakaarto to begin “his own work”: felling trees, staking out a house site, and trusting a generous-sounding but unwritten promise from Puikuliini. Shoemaker Eero appears to warn him to secure a proper contract and to see the power imbalance clearly, but Aatu, buoyed by pride and faith in his master, presses on. Aatu and Reeta build a sauna, navetta, and finally a bright new tupa; they name the place Metsola, fill their table with game, and settle into hopeful domestic life. As seasons pass, children are born and fields widen, but the rent in labor grows, Jori’s snobbish “education” collides with Eero’s blunt justice in a fiery debate about freedom and law, and—ten years on—the rising weekly work-levy to the estate stalls their farm and sours their prospects. When an exploitative lease clause is floated, Eero confronts Puikuliini, is sued for “honor,” and punished—signaling how the system moves to break those who speak for the torppari. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 41.8 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Author: Haanpää, Vilho, 1872-1943
EBook No.: 76542
Published: Jul 21, 2025
Downloads: 183
Language: Finnish
Subject: Finnish fiction -- 20th century
Subject: Crofters -- Finland -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.