{"id":921,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/matsin\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:34:59","slug":"matsin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/m\/matsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Paavo Matsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novels<\/strong><\/a> \"Paavo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

About Paavo Matsin<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Paavo Matsin <\/span>(b. 4. IV 1970) is a prose writer and poet.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matsin was born and educated in Tallinn, including the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute (today the University of Tallinn), the Estonian Institute of the Humanities and the Theological Institute of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he graduated with a dissertation on \u2018C.G. Jung and alchemy\u2019 (2003). He has worked at the Eduard Vilde and A.H. Tammsaare Museum, been a teacher at the Estonian Business School and the Viljandi Gymnasium. He has won the culture paper Sirp<\/i> award for his criticism in 2011. Matsin was active in the avant-garde literary grouping 14N\u00dc. He is a member of the Writers\u2019 Union (since 2005) and of the Gustav Meyrink Society of Estonia. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doktor Schwartz<\/i>, the first novel by the playful, experimental and imaginative Matsin, who rose to prominence in the second decade of the twenty-first century, appeared in 2011, winning the Siugjas Sulepea (\u2018Snaky Pen\u2019) literature award. This is unique in Estonian literature in dealing with alchemy, and the scene of action moves from Tallinn and Viljandi to Prague and Cairo. The novel is characterised by a cryptic intertextuality, difficult for the reader to grasp, some of which returned in the next novel, Sinine kaardiv\u00e4gi <\/i>(\u2018The Blue Guard\u2019, 2013), the main backdrop for which is Riga. Characteristic of Matsin are a grippingly observed urban atmosphere, and various interlinked (mystical) symbols. Multi-layered, multi-levelled action, playing with time, space and history, colourful characters and situations \u2013 all these are typical of Matsin\u2019s breakthrough novel Gogoli disko <\/i>(\u2018Gogol\u2019s Disco\u2019, 2015), in which the Russian classic writer Nikolai Gogol appears resurrected in a Viljandi of the future, under the rule of Tsarist Russia. The novel, with elements of magic realism, is at the same time an anti-Utopia and a parody of it. It won the Literature Endowment Annual Award and the European Union literature prize (2016).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> The novel\u2019s sequel is Lenini Valss (\u2018Lenin\u2019s Waltz\u2019, 2022), in which Lenin is brought from the Tampere Lenin Museum to Tartu that has been occupied by rival cat gangs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The names of the author add to the playfulness of Matsin\u2019s novels: for Sinine kaardiv\u00e4gi, <\/i>P\u0101vs Matsins, Pasha Matshinov in Gogoli disko<\/i>, and in the case of the novel Must p\u00e4ike <\/i>(\u2018Black Sun\u2019, 2017), Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzmatsin. Central to this last one is the town of V\u00f5ru and the Estonian literary classic and author of the national epic Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald and the cranes. Birds, specifically the ravens of the Tower of London, also have an important place in the novel Kongo tango <\/i>(\u2018Congo Tango\u2019, 2019, 1st<\/sup> place in the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union novel competition), which shifts through European towns with Matsin\u2019s typical multi-layered mashing of the old European strata of culture. The characters of the novel Death Cafe<\/em> (2024) are Estonian literary classics resurrected from the dead and sent to live in modern Europe: Oskar Luts<\/a>, A. H. Tammsaare<\/a>, Betti Alver<\/a>, Juhan Liiv<\/a>, and Uku Masing<\/a>.The blend of a haunting, extraordinary (mysterious) atmosphere, wild allusions, esoteric undercurrents and peculiar humour has become Matsin\u2019s main trademark.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. K. (Translated by C. M.)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Books in Estonian <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Novels<\/b><\/em>
Doktor Schwarz<\/strong>: alkeemia 12 v\u00f5tit. Viljandi: Lepp ja Nagel, 2011, 75 lk.
P\u0101vs Matsins, <\/span>Sinine kaardiv\u00e4gi<\/strong>. Viljandi: Lepp ja Nagel, 2013, 102 lk.
Pa\u0161a Mat\u0161inov, <\/span>Gogoli disko<\/strong>. Viljandi: Lepp ja Nagel, 2015, 143 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 2016.]
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzmatsin, Must p\u00e4ike<\/strong>.<\/span>Viljandi: Lepp ja Nagel, 2017, 174 lk.
Kongo tango<\/strong>: lugu raskemeelsest inglist. Viljandi: Lepp ja Nagel, 2019, 231 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
Pa\u0161a Mat\u0161inov, Lenini valss<\/strong>. Viljandi: Lepp ja Nagel, 2022, 126 lk.
Pawel Graf von Mazini, Death Caf\u00e9<\/strong>. Viljandi: Lepp ja Nagel, 2024, 156 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short prose<\/b><\/em>
Kaks muinasjuttu: t\u00e4iskasvanutele<\/strong>. Tallinn: Talmar & P\u00f5hi, 1994, 108 lk.
Manxxvrite aeg = \u0412\u0440\u0435\u043c\u044f \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043c\u0430\u043d\u0435\u0432\u0440\u043e\u0432<\/strong>.<\/span> <\/b>Tallinn: Talmar & P\u00f5hi, 1996, 29 lk.
Aabits<\/strong>. Tallinn: R\u00fchmitus \u201e14N\u00dc\u201c, 2000, 33 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry<\/b><\/em>
Interlineaaria<\/strong>. Tallinn: Talmar & P\u00f5hi, 1998, 67 lk.
Carolus Ernestus Baer<\/strong>: poeem. Tallinn: Koolibri, 2013, 45 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
Baeri laulud<\/strong> : v\u00e4rss-brelokk-romaan : vampiirid marionetid k\u00fc\u00fcrakad ahvid muusikandid inimeses\u00f6\u00f6jad hiina naised saabastatud kassid pott-viied arlekiinid ning tegevuskohaks lahtine tiigri k\u00f5ri see ta on armas Tartu linn oma professorite ja muu sellisega \u00fcles t\u00e4hendanud professor Paulus F\u00fcrchtegott von und zum Blut-Zwiebelfisch genannt Back ; kujundus: Kristjan von M\u00e4ndmaa, illustratsioonid: J\u00fcri von Mildeberg ; j\u00e4rels\u00f5na: Kaarel von Vanam\u00f6lder & Madli von Vanam\u00f6lder. Viljandi: Lepp ja Nagel, 2025, 93 lk. [V\u00e4rssromaan.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children\u2019s literature<\/b><\/em>
V\u00e4ike viiul ja kassimaffia<\/strong>: jutustus. Tallinn: Valgus, 1998, 40 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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