Project Gutenberg 2025-09-28 Public domain in the USA. 165 Ackté, Aino 1876 1944 Ackte, Aino Ackté-Jalander, Aino Achté, Aïno Achte, Aino Muistoja ja kuvitelmia $aHelsinki :$bOtava, $c1916. Tuula Temonen "Muistoja ja kuvitelmia" by Aino Ackté is a collection of memoiristic essays and imaginative vignettes written in the early 20th century. It blends autobiographical recollection with symbolic tales and dreamlike scenes to explore art, love, fame, jealousy, fate, and the ache of longing from a celebrated singer’s perspective. The pieces move fluidly between real encounters and lyrical allegories, tracing how memory and imagination shape an artist’s inner life. The opening of the collection moves from a striking dream about a snake-filled cup of envy to a heated affair between an actress and a writer that dims once physical passion erodes spiritual kinship. A gallery of rings becomes a treasury of memories—queens, mentors, a faithful childhood caretaker, and a poet—while meditations on love show devotion surviving disillusion. Consolation arrives through music and poetry as “the souls of the dead” speak, followed by parables of missed courage and punishing fate, and an image (Faleron’s angel) that rekindles the will to create. Other sketches show inspiration bound to sorrow, an exuberant hymn to the gramophone jump-starting a triumphant concert, and two contrasting unions: a marriage that withers and a free bond that, paradoxically, endures. Brief pieces portray a smile that persists even as photographs burn, a lovers’ plunge through snow to unite beyond judgment, and a wealthy woman’s inborn unrest. The section closes in a Paris studio, where a renowned painter claims to capture purity wrestling with desire in a portrait, as the narrative breaks off mid-thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250709001111ackt 1916 FI fi Autobiographies Singers -- Biography Ackté, Aino, 1876-1944 ML Text 98405 2025-11-30T10:01:55.527224 text/html 116162 2025-11-30T10:02:00.969189 application/epub+zip 114661 2025-11-30T10:01:58.510166 application/epub+zip 105579 2025-11-30T10:01:57.409169 application/epub+zip 280820 2025-11-30T10:02:02.776174 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 266368 2025-11-30T10:02:00.291171 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 83995 2025-11-30T10:01:55.280177 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 64286 2025-09-28T13:58:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15116 2025-11-30T10:02:02.902145 application/rdf+xml 17067 2025-11-30T10:01:57.904192 image/jpeg 4504 2025-11-30T10:01:57.657167 image/jpeg 117800 2025-11-30T10:01:55.536189 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia