The Nature of Hunger: Karl August Tavaststjerna's Hårda tider, in: Reinhard Hennig, Anna-Karin Jonasson, Peter Degerman: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment, Lanham et al.: Lexington 2018, S. 173-188 (original) (raw)

Abstract

This chapter investigates representations of hunger in Karl August Tavaststjerna’s Hårda tider (Hard Times, 1891). The analysis of these representations reveals changes in the concept of nature at the end of the nineteenth century. These changes become visible when contrasting Tavaststjerna’s novel, which tends towards Naturalism, with Johan Ludvig Runeberg’s writings and their leaning towards Idealism. In my reading of it, Tavaststjerna’s text naturalizes human behavior and denaturalizes the famine it depicts.

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