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Short stories<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\"Madis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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

About Madis K\u00f5iv<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Madis K\u00f5iv (5. XII 1929 \u2013 24. IX 2014) was an Estonian physicist, writer and philosopher, and one of the most important playwrights of the 1990s. K\u00f5iv worked from 1952\u20131961 as a teacher and then senior teacher in the physics department at the Tallinn University of Technology, and from 1960\u20131992, as a researcher in the theoretical physics sector at the University of Tartu Institute of Physics. He has written work in both standard Estonian and V\u00f5ru dialect.<\/span><\/span>
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Although Madis K\u00f5iv began writing at least twenty years earlier in the 1960s, he became a central and award-winning author in a re-independent Estonia after the collapse of the Soviet regime, when several Estonian theatres started staging his plays since the beginning of the 1990s. The action in K\u00f5iv\u2019s plays usually takes place in a visionary space that is hard to delineate in a conventional sense. The characters are usually people from an Estonian (e.g., the plays Tali<\/em> (\u2018Winter\u2019), Las olla p\u00e4\u00e4le<\/em> (\u2018Let It Be\u2019) and Faehlmann<\/em>, written with Vaino Vahing) or a wider European cultural history (Kokkusaamine<\/em> (\u2018The Meeting\u2019), Filosoofip\u00e4ev<\/em> (\u2018The Philosopher\u2019s Day\u2019), and Nero<\/em>), but also simple peasants (P\u00f5ud ja vihm P\u00f5lva kihelkonnan nel\u00e4t\u00f5istk\u00fcmnend\u00e4m\u00e4 aasta suv\u00f5l<\/em> (\u2018Drought and Rain in P\u00f5lva Parish in the Summer of 1914\u2019, written with Aivo L\u00f5hmus), K\u00fc\u00fcni t\u00e4itmine<\/em> (\u2018Filling the Hay Barn\u2019, written with Hando Runnel)). The characters in K\u00f5iv\u2019s plays usually find themselves in tense, existential situations in which nothing is certain. Philosophical questions are mixed with unresolved tensions in human relationships, often with war as a background to the action.<\/span>
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In addition to the plays, childhood memories have an important place within K\u00f5iv\u2019s work, appearing as a six-part novel series called Studia memoriae<\/em>. In the series, the author engages in a rigorous study of his memories and the memory process. Madis K\u00f5iv has also written very experimental modernist novels, such as Aken<\/em> (\u2018Window\u2019) and P\u00e4ev<\/em> (\u2018Day\u2019), in which, besides a barely understandable plot, the central theme is the very sensitive worldview and often outright paranoid thoughts of the first-person narrator.<\/span>
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Madis K\u00f5iv was a reclusive creative person. Although he received much recognition at the end of his life, K\u00f5iv never joined the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union and did not consider himself to be a professional writer. His sovereignty and independence as a writer is also recognizable from his texts; it is difficult to clearly define them according to genre, such as essay, novel, play, or philosophical discussion. K\u00f5iv\u2019s self-education as an autodidact in various fields was very extensive; he was particularly interested in the history of German thought and classical antiquity, as well as the history of science and philosophy in general. This has made his work multi-layered, even quite hermetic. On the other hand, it has also made his texts extremely productive and enduring, and a real intellectual challenge for future generations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I. O. (Translated by M. M.<\/span><\/span><\/em>)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Books in Estonian<\/p>\n

<\/em>Prose<\/em><\/strong>
Madis K\u00f5iv, Vaino Vahing, Endspiel. Laskumine orgu<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988, 204 lk.
R\u00e4nnuaastad. Studia Memoriae I<\/strong>. Tallinn: \u00d5llu, 1994, 167 lk.
Kolm tamme. Studia Memoriae III<\/strong>. Tallinn: \u00d5llu, 1995, 159 lk.
Aken<\/strong>. Tallinn: \u00d5llu, 1996, 218 lk.
Kalad ja raamatud. Studia Memoriae IV<\/strong>. Tallinn: \u00d5llu, 1998, 231 lk.
K\u00e4hri kerko man Pekril. Studia Memoriae II<\/strong>. V\u00f5ro: V\u00f5ro Instituut, 1999, 232 lk.
Attika Apooria, Elea trag\u00f6\u00f6dia<\/strong>. Tartu: Eesti \u00dcli\u00f5pilaste Selts \u201eVeljesto\u201c, 2000, 111 lk.
Keemiline pulm: autobiographia cryptica<\/strong>. Tartu: Akkon, 2002, 287 lk. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
P\u00e4ev<\/strong>. Tartu: Akkon, 2004, 367 lk.
Suvi P\u00e4\u00e4bul ja kinnijooks Raplas. Studia Memoriae VI<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti P\u00e4evaleht, Akadeemia, 2009, 349 lk.
Poisid ja t\u00fcdrukud. Studia Memoriae V<\/strong>. Tartu: EYS Veljesto, 2010, 622 lk.
Uudisjutte tegelikust ning v\u00f5imalikest maailmadest; n\u00e4gemused ja uned<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kultuurileht, 2013, 181 lk. [Loomingu Raamatukogu.]
Koolipoisid ja f\u00fc\u00fcsikud<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2014, 423 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Plays<\/em><\/strong>
Madis K\u00f5iv, Vaino Vahing, Faehlmann. Keskp\u00e4ev. \u00d5htuselgus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1984, 127 lk.
Madis K\u00f5iv, Aivo L\u00f5hmus, P\u00f5ud ja vihm P\u00f5lva kihelkonnan nel\u00e4t\u00f5istk\u00fcmnend\u00e4m\u00e4 aasta suv\u00f5l<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1987, 142 lk.
Kolm n\u00e4item\u00e4ngu<\/strong>. Koostanud ja toimetanud Andres Laasik. Tallinn: Eesti Draamateater, 1997, 348 lk. [Sisu: \u2018Kokkusaamine\u2019; \u2018Tagasitulek isa juurde\u2019; \u2018Filosoofip\u00e4ev\u2019.]
Jaanus Andreus Nooremb ehk Madis K\u00f5iv, Hando Runnel,<\/span><\/span> K\u00fc\u00fcni t\u00e4itmine<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 1998, 104 lk.
L\u00f5putu kohvijoomine<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Draamateater, 2008, 304 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
Keskm\u00e4ngustrateegia: stseene kolmes vaatuses proloogi ja epiloogiga<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Draamateater, 2015, 169 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Collected plays<\/em><\/strong>
N\u00e4idendid I<\/strong>. J\u00e4rels\u00f5na: Luule Epner. Tartu: Akkon, 2006, 503 lk. [Sisu: \u2018Castrozza\u2019, \u2018Turba philosophorum\u2019, \u2018Kammert\u00fckk\u2019, \u2018Las olla p\u00e4\u00e4le\u2019, \u2018Faehlmann\u2019 (kaasautor Vaino Vahing), \u2018V\u00f5lum\u00e4gi\u2019.]
N\u00e4idendid II<\/strong>. J\u00e4rels\u00f5na: Luule Epner. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Tartu: Akkon, 2007, 470 lk. [Sisu: \u2018Hammerklaviersonate\u2019, \u2018Tagasitulek isa juurde\u2019, \u2018Peiarite \u00f5htum\u00e4ngud\u2019, \u2018Tali\u2019, \u2018Omavahelisi jutuajamisi t\u00e4di Emmaga\u2019, \u2018P\u00f5ud ja vihm P\u00f5lva kihelkonnan nel\u00e4t\u00f5istk\u00fcmmend\u00e4m\u00e4 aasta suv\u00f5l\u2019 (kaasautor Aivo L\u00f5hmus).]
N\u00e4idendid III<\/strong>. J\u00e4rels\u00f5na: Luule Epner. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Tartu: Akkon, 2009, 447 lk. [Sisu: \u2018Filosoofip\u00e4ev\u2019, \u2018Kolmekesi toas\u2019; \u2018Stseene saja-aastasest s\u00f5jast\u2019, \u2018L\u00f5putu kohvijoomine\u2019 (kaasautor Leo Metsar), \u2018K\u00fc\u00fcni t\u00e4itmine\u2019 (Jaanus Andreus Nooremb), \u2018V\u00f5luv\u00e4gi\u2019.]
N\u00e4idendid IV<\/strong>. J\u00e4rels\u00f5na: Luule Epner. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Tartu: Akkon, 2010, 542 lk. [Sisu: \u2018Nero\u2019, \u2018Kokkusaamine\u2019, \u2018Finis nihili\u2019, \u2018Lahkumissoolo\u2019, \u2018Kui me Moondsundi Vasseliga p\u00e4hklaid m\u00fcisime ja keegi ei tahtnd osta\u2019, \u2018Kuradieliksiir\u2019 (E.T.A. Hoffmani j\u00e4rgi).]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Essays and articles<\/em><\/strong>
Luhta-minek<\/strong>. Koostanud ja j\u00e4rels\u00f5na Aare Pilv. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2005, 681 lk. [Eesti m\u00f5ttelugu.]
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