Alastalon salissa

Alastalon salissa

"Alastalon salissa" ("In the Parlour at Alastalo") (1933) is a landmark Finnish novel by Volter Kilpi. The two-volume, 800-page story covers a period of only six hours, written in a stream-of-consciousness style similar to James Joyce's "Ulysses".

The central narrative of "Alastalon salissa" describes a meeting of a group of wealthy men from Kustavi, who are trying to decide whether to invest in a shipbuilding venture proposed by one of their number, Herman Mattson. The novel's length stems from numerous digressions, internal monologues and a detailed accounting of each character's thought processes. In one famous scene, a character's journey to the mantelpiece to fetch a pipe is told in over seventy pages.

External links

[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9045449/Volter-Kilpi Volter Kilpi] at Britannica Online Encyclopedia


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