Jaan Kross. Feroce autoaccusa di una vittima

[Autom. eng. transl.] Jaan Kross (1920-2007), the most important Estonian writer of the second half of the twentieth century, presents three short stories written between 1979 and 1980 (The wound; Stahl's grammar; The conspiracy), released at home with others in 1988 "Silmade avamise päev" collection ("The day of sight rediscovered"). Already awarded in Italy in 1995 with the Nonino International Prize on the occasion of the Italian translation of The Madman of the Tsar, a work from 1984 - a historical novel (the protagonist, the Estonian baron Timotheus van Bock, is a really existent character), but also philosophical and political, which recounts the problematic relationship between the intellectual and power, the individual and history, the individual and their conscience - Jaan Korss returns to the fore again thanks to a publisher who in the perennial literary exploration of Northern Europe , happily lands for the second time on the Estonian coasts after the publication of Emil Tode, Land border (trad. it. by F. Rosso Marescalchi, introduction by Pirkko Peltonen, 172 pp.) back in 1994. The three stories chosen of Kross are emblematic, since they embrace the tragic period of Estonian history that goes from the Soviet occupation as the outcome of the MolotovRibbentrop pact of August 1939 - an occupation that tramples I stand the dignity of a declared independent state in 1920, and this cost the Soviet Union expulsion from the League of Nations - to the subsequent occupation by Nazi Germany, paradoxically hailed as a liberator, until the end of the Second War, when in 1944 Estonia returned again to the coils of the Soviet Union.