{"id":1665,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/kaugver\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:06:35","slug":"kaugver","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/kaugver\/","title":{"rendered":"Raimond Kaugver"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNovels <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\"Raimond<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort stories<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPlays<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAbout Raimond Kaugver<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tRaimond Kaugver (25. II 1926 \u2013 24. I 1992) was a prose author and playwright, one of the most popular Estonian writers during the Soviet era.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKaugver was born and educated in Rakvere. He escaped in 1943 to Finland and joined the Finnish army\u2019s 200th infantry regiment (the \u2018Finnish boys\u2019). In 1944 he returned to Estonia. He spent the years 1945 to 1950 as a political prisoner at Vorkuta in Siberia. After returning to Estonia he worked in various posts, among others as a tram driver in Tallinn. From 1961 he was a professional writer in Tallinn. He joined the Writers\u2019 Union in 1964. For his novel Vana mees tahab koju<\/em> (\u2018An Old Man Wants to Go Home\u2019, 1983) he won the A.H. Tammsaare Kolkhoz prize (1984), and for the short story Elup\u00e4\u00e4stja<\/em> (\u2018The Rescuer\u2019, 1988), the F. Tuglas short story prize (1989). He died in Tallinn, and is buried in the Tallinna Metsakalmistu (Forest Cemetery).<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe author who was to become a best-seller made his literary debut with the short story Doktor Kollom<\/em> (Looming<\/em>, 1956), with which he won second prize in the Looming<\/em> short story competition. He took part in the activities of the Tallinn NAK (Young Authors\u2019 Association). Some of the novels he wrote in the nineteen-fifties were only able to appear after the fall of Soviet power, such as Laevad kaotavad t\u00fc\u00fcri<\/em> (\u2018Ships Lose Their Rudders\u2019, 1993), based around an artist and taking an anti-Soviet stance, and P\u00f5hjavalgus<\/em> (\u2018Northern Light\u2019, 2010), on the subject of labour camps. The novel V\u00f5\u00f5ra m\u00f5\u00f5ga teenistuses<\/em> (\u2018In Service to a Foreign Sword\u2019, 2011), which deals with the events and choices of 1944, was noted as outstanding in a 1959 novel competition, but even after \u2018corrections\u2019, it remained unpublished.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHis first novels published in the Soviet period are predominantly concerned with workers: the pair of novels Keskp\u00e4evavalgus<\/em> (\u2018Midday Light\u2019, 1962) and Igap\u00e4evane leib<\/em> (\u2018Daily Bread\u2019, 1964) dealt with the lives of tram trust employees, and Seitsmendas l\u00e4\u00e4nes<\/em> (\u2018In the Seventh West\u2019, 1965) those of oil-shale miners. A deeper depiction of a human being was realised in the novel Nelik\u00fcmmend k\u00fc\u00fcnalt<\/em> (\u2018Forty Candles\u2019, 1966), which is built up from the main character\u2019s confessional retrospection on his life on his fortieth birthday. It is the story of one man\u2019s development and choices, one who has been through the German army, volunteered with the \u2018Finnish Boys\u2019 and later been in a Soviet prison camp. It is characteristic of Kaugver to use personal material and experience in his works. This was the first of Kaugver\u2019s novels to win wider acclaim.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his later novels Kaugver concentrated mainly on various issues in contemporary life; for example he tackles the effects of alcoholism in Jumalat ei ole kodus<\/em> (\u2018God Is Not at Home\u2019, 1971); problems of school life in Disko<\/em> (\u2018Disco\u2019, 1982); youth violence in Meie pole s\u00fc\u00fcdi<\/em> (\u2018We\u2019re Not to Blame\u2019, 1984). The last of these was made into a feature film (1986). One of Kaugver\u2019s most influential novels, Vana mees tahab koju<\/em>, deals with differences of world outlook between generations, which leave a former miner legless and homeless at the end of his life. A film of the same name was also based on this tragic story in 1991 (dir. T\u00f5nis Kask). Relations between parents and children are under scrutiny in the novel \u201cKas ema s\u00fcdant tunned sa?\u201d<\/em> (\u2018\u201dDo You Know Your Mother\u2019s Heart?\u201d\u2018 1988), of which 115,000 copies were printed \u2013 a record for one printing of a work by an Estonian author, which will probably never be equalled in the Estonian language.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the second half of the nineteen-eighties Kaugver tackled previously suppressed themes, such as the problem of the deportations in the novel Postuumselt rehabiliteeritud<\/em> (\u2018Posthumously Rehabilitated\u2019, 1990) and the collection of stories about the prison camps, Kirjad laagrist<\/em> (\u2018Letters from the Camp\u2019, 1989). Kaugver\u2019s short prose, mainly of a classical structure, considering diverse ethical questions in short story form, has also appeared in the collections 60 minutit<\/em> (\u201960 minutes\u2019, 1968), Tuuleveskid<\/em> (\u2018Windmills\u2019, 1977) and Oh mis kena maailm<\/em> (\u2018Oh What a Lovely World\u2019, 1983).<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tApart from prose, he wrote a number of plays, which have also been staged outside Estonia. Wider attention has been paid to the Oma saar<\/em> (\u2018Home Island\u2019), a play about mining (staged 1970, published in the collection K\u00fclalisteraamat<\/em> (\u2018Visitors\u2019 Book\u2019, 1977)); the most widely appreciated is Rong v\u00e4ljub hommikul<\/em> (\u2018The Train Leaves in the Morning\u2019), with its Symbolist undertone, dealing with the relationship between dreams and reality (staged 1971, published in the collection Valik n\u00e4idendeid<\/em> (\u2018Selected Plays\u2019, 1973)). As with his prose, in some of his plays he deals with family relationships and social problems. The theme of the prison camps, taken up in his novels and short prose, is also considered in the play Saturnuse lapsed<\/em> (\u2018Children of Saturn\u2019, staged 1989).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A. K. (Translated by C. M.)<\/em>
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Books in Estonian<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNovels<\/em><\/strong>
Keskp\u00e4evavalgus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1962, 251 lk.
Igap\u00e4evane leib<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1964, 208 lk.
Seitsmendas l\u00e4\u00e4nes<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1965, 267 lk.
Nelik\u00fcmmend k\u00fc\u00fcnalt<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1966, 247 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1976, 1995, 2008.]
Jumalat ei ole kodus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1971, 200 lk [2. tr 1979.]
Ja k\u00f5ik on kuhugi teel<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1974, 294 lk.
Suurte arvude seadus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1978, 299 lk.
Disko<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1982, 280 lk. [2. tr 1995.]
Vana mees tahab koju<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1983, 272 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1985, 2002.]
Meie pole s\u00fc\u00fcdi<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1984, 239 lk. [2. tr 1996.]
Pariisi l\u00f5busad naised<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1985, 239 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 2002, 2016.]
Tee isa juurde<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1987, 270 lk.
\u201cKas ema s\u00fcdant tunned sa?\u201d<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988, 254 lk.
Laev keset r\u00e4gastikku<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kupar, 1990, 288 lk.
Postuumselt rehabiliteeritud<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990, 166 lk.
Peot\u00e4is tolmu<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kupar, 1992, 204 lk.
Laevad kaotavad t\u00fc\u00fcri<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kupar, 1993, 126 lk.
Sillad p\u00f5levad<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 2007, 110 lk.
P\u00f5hjavalgus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Pegasus, 2010, 510 lk.
V\u00f5\u00f5ra m\u00f5\u00f5ga teenistuses<\/strong>. Tallinn: Pegasus, 2011, 284 lk.
Viimse meheni<\/strong>. Kooliromaan. Muraste: Randvelt Kirjastus, 2017, 159 lk.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tStories<\/em><\/strong>
60 minutit<\/strong>. L\u00fchiproosat 1956-1966. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1968, 196 lk.
Tuuleveskid<\/strong>. Jutustusi. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1974, 184 lk.
Keerdtrepp<\/strong>. Reportaa\u017e. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1976, 159 lk.
K\u00fclalisteraamat<\/strong>. Jutustusi. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1977, 222 lk.
Oh mis kena maailm<\/strong>. Lugusid inimestest ja (teistest) loomadest. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1983, 288 lk.
Kirjad laagrist<\/strong>. Jutustused. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1989, 172 lk.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tRadio plays<\/em><\/strong>
Pilk n\u00e4htamatusse<\/strong>. Valimik kuuldem\u00e4nge. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1969, 342 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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