Viivi Luik
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Crédit image: Viivi Luik at the annual Literary Street festival 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia By Sillerkiil - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109948380
Œuvres de Viivi Luik
Kõik lood Leopoldist : [jutustused] 5 exemplaires
Leopold : [jutustus] 3 exemplaires
Kolmed tähed : [luuletused] 2 exemplaires
Hääl : [luuletused] 2 exemplaires
Taevaste tuul : teine luulevihik 2 exemplaires
Luulet 1962-1974 2 exemplaires
Kolmed th̃ed : [luuletused] 1 exemplaire
Meie aabits ja lugemik 1 exemplaire
Kolmed ted : [luuletused] 1 exemplaire
Pilvede püha : luuletusi aastatest 1961-1963 1 exemplaire
Salamaja piir : [jutustus] 1 exemplaire
Hääl : [luuletused] 1 exemplaire
Vaatame, mis Leopold veel räägib 1 exemplaire
Maapäälsed asjad : [luuletused] 1 exemplaire
Ole kus oled 1 exemplaire
Salamaja piir 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Description of a Struggle: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Eastern European Writing (1994) — Contributeur — 77 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Luik, Viivi
- Nom légal
- Luik, Viivi
- Date de naissance
- 1946-11-06
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Estland
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 32
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 130
- Popularité
- #155,342
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 34
- Langues
- 9
- Favoris
- 1
The extraordinary element of this book is the honesty and exceptional clarity of the little girl's feelings and actions that are captured. She is often not even a likeable character and is more of a little whinny brat making various kinds of trouble. But the honesty that rings through is totally captivating. This is combined with Luik's often poetic imagery where entire pages can be read as if each paragraph was a separate poem.
Underlying everything is the stress of living in a world of a hand-to-mouth existence where activities such as berry-gathering or mushrooming aren't fun pastimes (although they might be for a child) but basic survival tools for the adults. There are some great characters here such as the cranky grandmother, the johnny-appleseed absentee father and a rural librarian who helps to edge the little girl forward in her reading and, presumably, eventually to her later life as a writer. The main drama is the collectivization of farms under the incompetent Soviet system which is feared by the populace but is mercilessly mocked in a childhood game where little girls play at dragging the physical individual farm buildings together into a collective "kolkhoz".
This novel was first published in 1985 likely through the aid of the "glasnost" (openness) era that began then during the Soviet Union and that allowed for criticism with reduced penalties and censorship. I didn't get around to reading it until 30 years later but am already eager to read it again. It is that sort of a rare thing.
Viivi Luik's "Seventh Spring of Peace" has been translated into about a dozen languages, although not into English. I read it in the original 1985 Estonian edition but it has had 2 Estonian reprints since then. Information on translation editions of the book can be found at http://www.estlit.ee/elis/?cmd=book&id=39995 and a sample English language excerpt (where the girl first meets the librarian Ilves) is at http://www.estlit.ee/elis/?cmd=writer&id=85322&txt=09863… (plus d'informations)