{"product_id":"the-last-days-of-maiju-lassila-9781639885305","title":"The Last Days of Maiju Lassila","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho wrote this novel?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e J I Vatanen was not a real person; he was a heteronym-a characterized pseudonym-of a strange Finnish author named Algot Untola, who was arrested as a Red agitator at the end of the Finnish Civil War in May, 1918, and summarily sentenced and shot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This novel is \"J I Vatanen's\" \"memoir\" of the events leading up to that violent death and its tragicomic aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e But who wrote it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Douglas Robinson, a noted Finnish-English translator and translation scholar, claims that he \"pseudotranslated\" it-but what does that mean? A pseudotranslation is a hoax translation, one with no original. But if the hoaxer declares the hoax up front, is it still a hoax?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Last Days of Maiju Lassila\u003c\/em\u003e is a readable story with its backdrop in a volatile political history from the 1880s to 1919; but it is also an experimental memoir\/novel\/translation that toys with our \"certainty\" about reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atmosphere Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639885305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d","brand":"Douglas Robinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42389529788597,"sku":"9781639885305","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f1b39a83-f03c-4d8f-a459-573de63d0a9b.jpg?v=1663681818","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-last-days-of-maiju-lassila-9781639885305","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}