Kolme katku vahel I

Balthasar Russowi romaan #1

by Jaan Kross

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction

269 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Jaan Kross (1920 – 2007) was an Estonian writer. He has been tipped for the Nobel Prize for Literature on several occasions for his novels, but did in fact start his literary career as a poet and translator of poetry. On his return from the labour camps and internal exile in Russia, where he spent the years 1946-1954 as a political prisoner, Kross renewed Estonian poetry, giving it new directions.

Kross began writing prose in the latter half of the 1960s, first with a film scenario "A Livonian Chronicle" (Liivimaa kroonika) which dealt with the life of the author Balthasar Russow (1536-1600) and which also became the subject of his first masterpiece "Between Three Plagues" (Kolme katku vahel, 1970), a suit of four novels. From that time onwards Kross moved by stage nearer to our present time in history, describing figures from Estonian history, first in short stories and novellæ, later in novels, also in writings where he has drawn upon his own experiences. The heroes of his novels tend to be of Estonian or Baltic German origin and cultured people, though on the margins of society and are usually faced with a moral dilemma of some sort.

Reviews

[Gautsho]

Trööstilugemine, aus eesti keel.

[Oliver · Rating 4 out of 5]

Didn’t get into the wibe. I can see it is solid historical fiction, but will not jump into book two immediately.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enne Harglat võiks tegelikult hoopis Krossi “Kolme katku vahel” läbi lugeda. (Tuleb tunnistada, et kui Hargla siit inspiratsiooni pole saanud, on tegu küll üsna üllatusliku kokkusattumusega.) Kross on väga mõnusa jutustamisstiiliga, kuid viskab sisse n.-ö. “kellele tarvilikke, kellele mitte” vimkasid, mis vaimu värske hoiavad.

Kutsub Krossi veel edaspidigi lugema.

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Täitsa nagu ise oleks seal olnud