The special issue of Northern Literature takes a look at various depictions of the North in Russian literature. The focus is above all on Northern nature with its birds, reindeer and the people who inhabit and shape the Arctic. The text interestingly show in how many different ways the Northern nature has been treated in Russia over time. Social changes have also reflected in literature and descriptions of the North in fiction.
The magazine also contains previously unpublished translations to Finnish: poetry of Nadezhda Bulatova, nature poems by Askold Bazhanov, and an excerpt from Anna Nerkagi's novella Aniko iz Roda Nogo ("Aniko of the Nogo Family", 1976).
Ajan kohina is an electronic magazine received by members of the Finnish Society of Russian Literature. The magazine is not open to the public. The editor-in-chief of the magazine is Henna Keränen.
Contents of the special issue:
Henna Keränen: Pääkirjoitus
Esseet
Karina Lukin: Lintuja nenetsien suullisessa ja kirjallisessa taiteessa ja kesässä
Mika Perkiömäki: Pohjoisen satusetä Stepan Pisahov
Juha Räihä: Aurinkoloma Arktiksella – 1930-luvun arktinen utopia Aleksandr Beljajevin romaanissa Pod nebom Arktiki
Suomennoksia
Nadežda Bulatova: Evenkien kirjallisuus (transl. Anu Mannermaa)
Tintti Klapuri: Askold Bažanovin luontorunoja
Anna Nerkagi: Nogo-suvun Aniko (transl. Eeva Kuikka)
Venäläisiä sananlaskuja
Tomi Huttunen: Venäläisiä sananlaskuja Raija Rymin-Nevanlinnan suomennoksina
Arvostelut
Ljudmila Ulitskaja: Sielun ruumis (Marie Mäkinen)
Anna Soudakova: Mitä männyt näkevät (Ida-Emilia Reini)