Juhani Aho citations

Juhani Aho est un écrivain finlandais.

Sa carrière d'écrivain a duré quarante ans.

Juhani Aho fut le premier écrivain professionnel en Finlande, plusieurs fois proposé pour le prix Nobel de littérature. Il fut également journaliste et traducteur . Son œuvre est toujours considérée comme l'une des pièces maîtresses de la littérature des pays du nord, et continue d'être rééditée et lue. Le cent cinquantième anniversaire de sa naissance a donné lieu en 2011 à de nombreux hommages, publications et expositions en Finlande. Wikipedia

✵ 11. septembre 1861 – 8. août 1921

Juhani Aho: Citations en anglais

“WHEN father bought the lamp, or a little before that, he said to mother:
"Hark ye, mother—ought n't we to buy us a lamp?"
"A lamp? What sort of a lamp?"
"What! Don't you know that the storekeeper who lives in the market town has brought from St. Petersburg lamps that actually burn better than ten päreä? [1] They've already got a lamp of the sort at the parsonage."
"Oh, yes! Is n't it one of those things which shines in the middle of the room so that we can see to read in every corner, just as if it was broad daylight?"
"That's just it. There's oil that burns in it, and you only have to light it of an evening, and it burns on without going out till the next morning."
"But how can the wet oil burn?"”

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"You might as well ask—how can brandy burn?"
Juhani Aho. " When Father Brought Home the Lamp https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stories_by_Foreign_Authors_(Scandinavian)/When_Father_Brought_Home_the_Lamp," Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. in: Stories by Foreign Authors–Scandinavian, Cassell Publishing Co. 1898.

“No music was made from grief, moulded from sorrow.”

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Juhani Aho. Yksin ("Alone," 1890, tr. as Seul 2013); cited in: Guri Barstad, ‎Karen P. Knutsen (2016), States of Decadence: On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and Transgression across Time and Space Volume 1. p. 2