{"id":2144,"date":"2024-04-03T23:42:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/gross\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:05:15","slug":"gross","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/g\/gross\/","title":{"rendered":"Villem Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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

\n\tAbout Villem Gross<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVillem Gross (pseudonym Ott Varangu, 11. I 1922 \u2013 6. IV 2001) was a prose writer. <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVillem Gross was born in Tartu; afterwards his family moved to live in Kohtla-J\u00e4rve. He was educated in Kohtla-J\u00e4rve, J\u00f5hvi and Rakvere. He was active in Komsomol. He was mobilized and served in the Estonian Rifle Corps. After the war he worked as a journalist: on the Talurahvaleht<\/span><\/i>, Rahva H\u00e4\u00e4l<\/span><\/i>, culture paper Sirp ja Vasar<\/span><\/i>\u00a0and Noorus<\/span><\/i>, <\/span><\/i>a magazine for young people<\/span>. Thereafter he was a professional writer. He joined the Writers\u2019 Union in 1950. From 1966 to 1971 he was the secretary of the Union and, from 1971 to 1976, of its board. He was a member of the CPSU from 1946 to 1990. He was a Merited Writer of the ESSR from 1975. He won the Juhan Smuul Prize in 1978 for the novel Vaikimise motiivid <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Motifs of Silence\u2019, 1978).<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe made his literary debut in print with the story Noored<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(\u2018The Young\u2019), which appeared in the almanac V\u00f5itlev s\u00f5na <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Warring Word\u2019, 1949). At the beginning of Gross\u2019 career his main output was plays, of which the most acclaimed was Ankeet <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Questionnaire\u2019, 1955), the first to appear as a book, and which considers the topic of human relations. Gross\u2019 first book of prose was a tale of youth, \u00dche poisi suvi <\/span><\/i>(\u2018One Boy\u2019s Summer\u2019, 1956), which tells the story of one young man\u2019s attainment of adulthood. The events of the forties are central to Tiivasirutus <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Spreading the Wings\u2019, 1958). The shaping of young people and the decisions made in the forties are among the central themes of Gross\u2019 work. This comes out most clearly in Pinginaabrid <\/span><\/i>(Desk-mates, 1965), in which the lives of two classmates diverge because of the war and end up on different fronts. The novel also scrutinizes the society of the fifties and people\u2019s opportunities and choices in an atmosphere of mistrust. Gross\u2019 realistic prose mingles the depiction of characters mostly against the backdrop of wider society. Gross often portrays his own contemporaries. <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sixties were particularly productive years in Gross\u2019 career. His novel M\u00fc\u00fca pooleliolev individuaalelumaja <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Half-completed Private House for Sale\u2019, 1962) attracted attention; typically for Gross, it looks at the development of two young people and their marriage in post-war society.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe short story collection Keskmised p\u00e4evad <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Average Days\u2019, 1966) deals with the author\u2019s contemporaries with psychological insight and a depiction of the time and conditions. The novel Kooliraha<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(\u2018Tuition\u2019, 1967), with a mining setting, analyses a young miner, giving a central place to society and human relations.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPost-war society and human relationships are the focus of the novel Talvepuhkus <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Winter Holiday\u2019, 1975), from which a film was made with the title Naine k\u00fctab sauna <\/span><\/i>(\u2018A Woman Lights the Sauna\u2019, 1978, directed by Arvo Kruusement. Ethical problems are dealt with in different time-frames in the novel Vaikimise motiivid <\/span><\/i>(1978).<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the novel Enne suurt ilmamuutust <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Before the Big Change in the Weather\u2019, 1990) Gross uses autobiographical material, placing a young musician in the late thirties in a mining settlement in northeast Estonia. Personal and memorial material is gathered in \u00d5htuoode <\/span><\/i>(\u2018High Tea\u2019, 1996).<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his work Gross reached into the present day, dealing with the events of the late eighties and early nineties, such as in the novels President ja ta koerake <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The President and His Little Dog\u2019, 1992) and Lasnam\u00e4elt alla <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Down from Lasnam\u00e4e\u2019, 1999).<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA. K. (Translated by C. M.)<\/em><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBooks\u00a0in Estonian<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNovels<\/span><\/b><\/em>
M\u00fc\u00fca pooleliolev individuaalelumaja<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1962, 341 lk. [J\u00e4rgmised tr\u00fckid: 1974, 1987.]
Kooliraha<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1967, 211 lk.\u00a0[2. tr:\u00a01988.]
Talvepuhkus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1975, 160 lk.\u00a0[2. tr:\u00a01988.]
Vaikimise motiivid<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1978, 192 lk.
\u00dclekoormatud paadis<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1981, 143 lk.
Enne suurt ilmamuutust<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990, 190 lk.<\/span><\/span>
President ja ta koerake<\/strong>. Tallinn: Koolibri, 1992, 147 lk.
Ott Varangu,\u00a0Abielumehe pihtimus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kuldsulg, 1995, 191 lk.
Lasnam\u00e4elt alla<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kuldsulg, 1999, 190 lk.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort prose<\/span><\/b><\/em>
\u00dche poisi suvi<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1956, 78 lk.\u00a0[J\u00e4rgmised tr\u00fckid: 1959, 1972, 1984.]
Tiivasirutus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1958, 240 lk.\u00a0[J\u00e4rgmised tr\u00fckid: 1959, 1967, 1982, 1987.]
Keskmised p\u00e4evad<\/strong>: jutustused. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1966, 176 lk.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPlays<\/span><\/b><\/em>
Ankeet<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1955, 68 lk.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMiscellaneous<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/em>
Kas ainult t\u00e4na on t\u00e4nap\u00e4ev?<\/strong>.\u00a0Publitsistikakogumik. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1972, 223 lk.
\u00d5htuoode.\u00a0M\u00e4lestused ja romaan noorusajast<\/strong>. Tallinn: Faatum, 1996, 268 lk.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSelected works<\/span><\/b><\/em>
Valitud teosed 1. Tiivasirutus. M\u00fc\u00fca pooleliolev individuaalelumaja<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1987, 461 lk.
Valitud teosed 2. Pinginaabrid. Kooliraha. Kiiktool. S\u00fcndmus ratastel<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988, 429 lk.
Valitud teosed 3. Talvepuhkus. Vaikimise motiivid. \u00dclekoormatud paadis. Mardikarneval<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988, 494 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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