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Kaj Kalin. Veressa. Helsinki. WSOY. 1993. 119 pages. FIM 128.
Finland--more than any other Western country?--has cultivated the aphorism in its twentieth-century literature, a cultural phenomenon that demands investigation. While the Finland-Swedish fascination with the pithy form was pretty well limited to the so-called modernists and their contemporaries (Edith Sodergran's Brokiga iaktagelser, Diktonius's Dikt, Bjorling's Korset och loftet, the composer Erkki Melartin's Credo, R. R. Eklund's Rymd oeh manniska), aphoristic volumes in Finnish have sprung up like mushrooms, from V. A....