“Estonian Elegy” by Jüri Talvet: A Vision of an Ethnical Perspective via Forgiveness and Love Cover Image

“Estonian Elegy” by Jüri Talvet: A Vision of an Ethnical Perspective via Forgiveness and Love
“Estonian Elegy” by Jüri Talvet: A Vision of an Ethnical Perspective via Forgiveness and Love

Author(s): Marisa Kërbizi
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: “Estonian Elegy” is a desperate painful cry of the denied right to happiness. This poem, a sensuous elegy for the loss of nine hundred human lives in a passenger ferry, turns into a lament for the past and the present of a nation. Estonia, an ancient country, with an extraordinary history (dating back to 10,000 B.C, to the end of the Late Pleistocene, by found artefacts of the Kunda Culture) (Kevin O’Connor 2006: 39), has had a long and difficult road toward resurrection, after a lot of suffering and humiliation during the past centuries.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 181-194
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English