Lintukoto : Muutamia päiväkirjan lehtiä by Joel Lehtonen
Lintukoto by Joel Lehtonen is a diary-like autobiographical prose work written in the early 20th century. Framed as intimate “pages of a diary,” it follows a reflective narrator retreating with his wife to a tiny Finnish island, where he contemplates love, solitude, and the renewing force of nature. The island itself emerges as a central presence through lyrical nature writing and wry, self-aware humor. The opening of this book contrasts a lover’s
reunion with the narrator’s return to his “summer island,” at first bleak and disappointing in early spring before affection rekindles as the landscape greens and blossoms. A comic-grotesque episode describes a winter rat invasion—the imagined “rat-catcher” Pied Piper, chewed gear and food stores, and even a ghastly barrel of starved rodents—told with dark whimsy and vivid detail. He then situates the islet between two lake reaches, evokes the neighboring village and ancient church, recalls the previous owner (a solitary fisherman who died in the sauna), and explains buying the place to make a thelemitic “monastery” of peace, planting trees, laying stone paths, and crafting a simple, dark-hued home. After weeks of cold, a radiant dream—an owl that becomes a playful fairy named Krik—seems to bring the season at last, and he wakes to apple trees in dazzling bloom and a yard alive with birdsong. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Lehtonen, Joel, 1881-1934 |
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| Title | Lintukoto : Muutamia päiväkirjan lehtiä |
| Original Publication | Helsinki: Otava, 1929. |
| Contents | Ero ja kohtaaminen -- Rotanlumooja -- Kesäisen erakkomajani historiaa y.m. -- Miten Krik toi kesän -- Auringon vertauskuva ilmestyy taloon -- Kukosta lisää -- Yhä kukosta. Matti alkaa toimensa -- Vieraita ja juhlia -- Nyt jutellaan taas Matista! -- "Ritari Matvei" -- Kauneuden tuokio, mitä enempää voisin vaatia? -- Muurahaiset -- Heinäkuun kuutamo -- "Hammam" -- Tiiranpoika -- Lauantaikellot -- Viikatemies -- Elokuun kuutamo -- Jäähyväiset Lintukodolle -- "Vekkulit ja kekkuli!" |
| Credits | Tapio Riikonen |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Short stories, Finnish |
| Subject | Finnish fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78058 |
| Release Date | Feb 27, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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