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Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman

By L Onerva, Eva Buchwald (Translator), Viola Parente-ČapkovÃÂÂ (Text by)
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By L Onerva, Eva Buchwald (Translator), Viola Parente-ČapkovÃÂÂ (Text by)
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This volume presents the first English translation of Mirdja (1908), a remarkable work of Decadent literature by Finnish author L. Onerva (the pen name of Hilja Onerva Lehtinen, 1882-1972). Onerva was one of the most versatile literary figures of her generation, and her novel Mirdja is among the most important works of Nordic fin-de-siècle literature. It recounts the life of its free-spirited protagonist from adolescence to old age as she navigates the gendered world around her, testing the...