Arthur Roose

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Arthur Roose (also Artur , pseudonym Aerni Raudoja , born August 2 . Jul / 15. August  1903 greg. In Tartu ; † 19th March 1929 ) was an Estonian writer , critic and translator .

Life

Roose attended the Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium in Tartu for a few years , but had to leave it in 1921 for health reasons. He then got by writing articles and reviews for newspapers. Several times he stayed with relatives in Poland on to Polish learning (1924-25, 1928). In the course of 1928 symptoms of a mental illness appeared, which is why he was admitted to the Tartu mental hospital in the spring of 1929. Shortly after he was released, he developed pneumonia and died.

plant

Roose's work, which consists of a novel and a few scattered and partly posthumous novels, can be assigned to so-called “suburban realism”, of which August Jakobson was the most prominent representative . His only novel, Das Rattennest , describes an aging bachelor in poor circumstances who has to fight off the advances of three women. At the same time, the rats are becoming more and more active in the walls of his dwelling, in the end they seem to take over the helm, at least the man himself gets "rat-like" features. In the end, the protagonist's house goes up in flames.

Roose achieved great importance as the translator of the Polish Nobel Prize for Literature Władysław Reymont , from whom he translated a total of six novels, including the tetralogy The Peasants .

bibliography

  • Wõhrupesa ('The Rat's Nest '). Tartu: Noor-Eesti 1927. 276 p. (New edition Võhrupesa : Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2003. 206 p.)

Literature on the author

  • Rudolf Sirge : Töölistoast parnassile. Mõni sõna Arthur Roosest, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 12/1969, pp. 745–756.
  • Toomas Haug: Tallinnas tänava kolmnurgas. Peatükk kanoniseerimata kirjanduslugu, in: Looming 12/2001, pp. 1858–1877.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 474.
  2. ↑ See Henno Jänes: History of Estonian Literature. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1965, p. 121, also "Vorstadtroman" (Estonian Aguliromaan ).
  3. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 478.
  4. ↑ Toomas Haug: Tallinnas tänava kolmnurgas. Peatükk kanoniseerimata kirjanduslugu, in: Looming 12/2001, p. 1873.
personal data
SURNAME Roose, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raudoja, Ärni (pseudonym); Roose, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer, critic and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Tartu
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1929
Place of death Tartu