Seitsemän veljestä

Seitsemän veljestä (literally translated The Seven Brothers, or The Brothers Seven in Douglas Robinson's 2017 translation) is the first and only novel by Aleksis Kivi, the national author of Finland. ^[1]

52 relations: About Seven Brothers, Adult, Agathon Meurman, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Alcoholism, Aleksis Kivi, Armas Launis, August Ahlqvist, BBC, Bible, Caricature, Charlotta Lönnqvist, Coat of arms, Comic opera, Confirmation, Constable, Culture of Finland, Delirium tremens, Douglas Robinson (academic), Fennoman movement, Finland, Finnish language, Finnish National Theatre, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Heath Cobblers, Ilta-Sanomat, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Jouko Turkka, Juhani Aho, Kalevala, Kuusankoski, Literacy, Literary realism, Marcus Collin, Mauri Kunnas, Ministry of the Interior (Finland), Minna Canth, Nationalism, Nordic countries, Nurmijärvi, Peasant, Precentor, Project Runeberg, Prose, Rectum, Religion, Richard Impola, Siuntio, Tammi (company), Vicar, ... Expand index (2 more) » « Shrink index
1870 debut novels
1870 novels
19th-century Finnish novels
Aleksis Kivi
Novels set in Finland

About Seven Brothers

About Seven Brothers (Noin seitsemän veljestä; also stylised as "Noin 7 Veljestä") is a 1968 comedy directed by Jukka Virtanen and which was written and produced by Spede Pasanen.

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Adult

An adult is a human or other animal that has reached full growth.

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Agathon Meurman

Agathon Meurman (9 October 1826, Kangasala – 17 January 1909, Helsinki) was a Finnish politician and journalist.

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic.

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems.

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Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi (born Alexis Stenvall; 10 October 1834 – 31 December 1872) was a Finnish writer who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seitsemän veljestä ("Seven Brothers"), published in 1870.

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Armas Launis

Armas Launis (April 22, 1884 – August 7, 1959), was a Finnish composer as well as an ethnomusicologist, a professor, a writer and a journalist.

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August Ahlqvist

Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist, who wrote as A. Oksanen (7 August 1826 – 20 November 1889), was a Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Caricature

A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon).

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Charlotta Lönnqvist

Charlotta Maria Lönnqvist (4 February 1815 Siuntio – 27 April 1891 Siuntio) was a Finnish, Swedish-speaking cultural personality.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).

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Comic opera

Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue.

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Confirmation

In Christian denominations that practice infant baptism, confirmation is seen as the sealing of the covenant created in baptism.

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Constable

A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in law enforcement.

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Culture of Finland

The culture of Finland combines indigenous heritage, as represented for example by the country's national languages Finnish (a Uralic language) and Swedish (a Germanic language), and the sauna, with common Nordic and European cultural aspects.

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Delirium tremens

Delirium tremens (DTs) is a rapid onset of confusion usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol.

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Douglas Robinson (academic)

Douglas Robinson (born September 30, 1954) is an American academic scholar, translator, and fiction-writer who is best known for his work in translation studies, but has published widely on various aspects of human communication and social interaction (American literature, literary theory, linguistic theory, gender theory, writing theory, rhetorical theory).

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Fennoman movement

The Fennoman movement or Fennomania was a Finnish nationalist movement in the 19th-century Grand Duchy of Finland, built on the work of the fennophile interests of the 18th and early-19th centuries.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Finnish language

Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.

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Finnish National Theatre

The Finnish National Theatre (Suomen Kansallisteatteri), established in 1872, is a theatre located in central Helsinki on the northern side of the Helsinki Central Railway Station Square.

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G. P. Putnam's Sons

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Heath Cobblers

The Cobblers on the Heath (or Heath Cobblers in Douglas Robinson's 1993 translation; Nummisuutarit) is a play by Aleksis Kivi.

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Ilta-Sanomat

the evening news is one of Finland's two prominent tabloid size evening newspapers and the second largest paper in the country.

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Johan Ludvig Runeberg

Johan Ludvig Runeberg (5 February 1804 – 6 May 1877) was a Finnish priest, lyric and epic poet.

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Jouko Turkka

Jouko Veli Turkka (17 April 1942 – 22 July 2016) was a Finnish theatrical director and controversialist.

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Juhani Aho

Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt (11 September 1861 – 8 August 1921), was a Finnish author and journalist.

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Kalevala

The Kalevala is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.

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Kuusankoski

Kuusankoski is a neighbourhood of city of Kouvola, former industrial town and municipality of Finland, located in the region of Kymenlaakso in the province of Southern Finland.

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Literacy

Literacy is the ability to read and write.

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Literary realism

Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements.

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Marcus Collin

Gustaf Marcus Collin (18 November 1882, Helsinki – 22 September 1966, Kauniainen) was an artist from Finland.

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Mauri Kunnas

Mauri Tapio Kunnas (born 11 February 1950) is a Finnish cartoonist and children's author.

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Ministry of the Interior (Finland)

The Ministry of the Interior (sisäministeriö, inrikesministeriet) is one of the Finnish Government's twelve ministries and is responsible for matters related to internal security such as counter-terrorism, policing, fire & rescue services, and border control, as well as migration issues.

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Minna Canth

Minna Canth (born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson; 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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Nordic countries

The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.

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Nurmijärvi

Nurmijärvi is a municipality in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country.

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Peasant

A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: non-free slaves, semi-free serfs, and free tenants.

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Precentor

A precentor is a person who helps facilitate worship.

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Project Runeberg

Project Runeberg (Projekt Runeberg) is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries.

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Prose

Prose is the form of written language (including written speech or dialogue) that follows the natural flow of speech, a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or typical writing conventions and formatting.

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Rectum

The rectum (rectums or recta) is the final straight portion of the large intestine in humans and some other mammals, and the gut in others.

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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

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Richard Impola

Richard Aarre Impola (1923 – March 18, 2015) was a Finnish–American professor and translator.

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Siuntio

Siuntio (Sjundeå) is a municipality in the Uusimaa region of Southern Finland.

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Tammi (company)

Tammi, also known as Kustannusyhtiö Tammi and Tammi Publishers, is a Finnish publishing company established in 1943 by an initiative of Väinö Tanner, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland.

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Vicar

A vicar (Latin: vicarius) is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand").

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Yle

Yleisradio Oy (Rundradion Ab), abbreviated as Yle (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926.

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1870 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1870.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitsemän_veljestä

Also known as 7 Brothers, Seitsemaen veljestae, Seven Brothers, The Brothers Seven, The Seven Brothers.

, Yle, 1870 in literature.

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See also

1870 debut novels

1870 novels

19th-century Finnish novels

Aleksis Kivi

Novels set in Finland

References