Johannes Linnankoski
1869–1913
Biography
Johannes Linnankoski was a Finnish author and playwright who lived from 1869 to 1913. He was born Johannes Vihtori Peltonen and is known to readers by the name Linnankoski. He belonged to the generation that helped shape Finnish art and writing during its flourishing around the turn of the twentieth century.
His best-known book, The Song of the Blood-Red Flower, is a novel that came out in 1905. Guilt, punishment and redemption are the moral questions at the centre of his writing, and they give his work its seriousness. Those themes place him among the writers who gave Finnish literature its weight in the early twentieth century.
The catalogue holds the novel in its Finnish text, under the title Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta. Reading it in the original Finnish is the closest a reader can come to the author's own words.
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Books
Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta
by Johannes Linnankoski
Olavi, a young log driver on the rivers of Finland, is a charming wanderer who finds a new girl at every landing and moves on with the timber. The novel follows his roaming summers on the rapids and the women he loves and leaves, and asks what such a man will do when love…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.