Mait Metsanurk

Mait Metsanurk (* November 19, 1879 on the farm Saare, Metsanuka village, rural municipality Tartu, Tartu County / Livonia; † August 21, 1957 in Tallinn) was an Estonian writer, whose real name was Eduard Hubel.

Early years

Mait Metsanurk was born as the youngest of eight children in a peasant family. He attended primary school in Orge and the Russian-speaking city school in Tartu. Then he took a few courses in pedagogy. Then he made ​​his way with various tasks, first as office official, then as a school teacher and from 1906 as a journalist.

Writer

Mait Metsanurk reached in 1908 his literary breakthrough with realistic descriptions of the Estonian town and country life of that time. In particular, the social contradictions and tensions are processed in his work. Mait Metsanurk became one of the most prolific and popular writer and playwright of his era. Together with Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878-1940), he is considered one of the most outstanding representatives of the Estonian realism in the interwar period. His major work, the historical novel Ümera Joel (1934 ), depicts the struggle of the pagan Estonians against the Danish and German conquerors and became a Roman identification of the time. In addition, he worked as a literary critic and translator.

In 1924/25 and 1930 to 1936 Mait Metsanurk was chairman of the Estonian Writers' Union.

With the Soviet occupation of Estonia Mait Metsanurk was sidelined politically and culturally. The deportation to Siberia, which suffered many Estonian writer, he remained, however, spared. Mait Metsanurk was not until 1956, after the end of Stalinism, rehabilitated. It lies on the forest cemetery of Tallinn buried.

Literary work

Prose works

  • " Isamaa õilmed " (story, Tallinn 1908)
  • " Vahesaare Villem " (novel, Tallinn 1909)
  • " Jumalalapsed " ( short stories, Tallinn 1910)
  • " Toho - Oja Anton" ( novella, Tallinn 1916)
  • " Ennäe inimest! " (Novel, 1918)
  • " Epp " (story, Tartu 1920)
  • " Jumalata " (story, Tallinn 1921)
  • " Taavet Soovere elu yes surm " (novel, 1922)
  • " Valge Pilv " (novel, Tartu 1925)
  • " Viimne päev " ( short story collection, Tallinn 1927)
  • " Punane tuul " (novel, Tartu 1928)
  • " Jutustused yes novellid " ( stories and novellas, Tartu 1929)
  • " Fr Arraste & Pojad " (novel, Tartu 1930)
  • " Elu murrab Sisse " ( short story collection, Tartu 1931)
  • " Taniel heitleb " (story, Tartu 1932)
  • " Maine ike " ( short story collection, Tartu, 1933)
  • " Mändide all" (youth narrative, Tartu, 1933)
  • " Ümera Joel" (novel, Tartu 1934)
  • " Soosaare " (novel, Tartu 1936)
  • " Kutsutud yes seatud " ( diary novel, Tartu 1937)
  • " Tuli tuha all" (novel, Tartu, 1939 )
  • "Tea algul. Mälestused I" ( memories, Tallinn 1946)
  • " Suvine pööripäev " (novel, Tallinn 1957)

Plays

  • " Uues korteris " ( Comedy, Tallinn 1908)
  • " Vagade elu" ( Tartu Comedy 1923)
  • " Kindrali poeg " ( Drama, Tartu 1925)
  • " Talupoja poeg " ( Drama, Tartu 1929)
  • " Mässuvaim ehk Agulirahvas läheb ajalukku " ( Comedy, Tallinn 1931)
  • " Haljal Oksal " ( Comedy, Tallinn 1932)
  • " C. R. Jakobson " ( Drama, Tartu 1935)
  • " Maret elukoolis " ( Comedy, Tallinn 1938)
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