August Jakobson. Vaeste-patuste alev. Romaan 2 köites. Kaas Jaan Vahtralt. K/Ü "Loodus", Tartu 1927.
"A Suburb of Poor Sinners" Novel in 2 Volumes by August Jakobson with Avant-Garde Constructivist
Cover by Famous Estonian Artist Illustrator Jaan Vahtra, Tartu 1927. Volumes I & II.
- FIRST EDITION-. Publisher: K/Ü "Loodus", Tartu 1927. Estonian language. Vol. I: 407 [1] pages. Size 137 x 205 mm.
Weight 385 gr. Vol. II: [6] 415 - 760 pages. Size 137 x 205 mm. Weight 340 gr. Publishing original soft covers.
Complete copies. Very Fine condition: practically clean text blocks with minor defects; cover - very small pollution
and scuffs, minimal tears on bottom of the spine; minor defects, traces of the time (please see images).
NB! The book is really old, which printed 96 years ago, but not modern reprint or more late re-edition.
"A Suburb of Poor Sinners" is a naturalistic debut novel in August Jakobson, published in 1927.
In 1927, Jakobson won the first place in the Looduse Publishers' Novel. The novel was immediately well received,
and at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s it was the most read in Estonia, alongside A.H. Tammsaare's "Truth and Justice".
In the selection of the top best 200 books in Estonia in the last century, the novel finished 47th in 82 votes.
August Jakobson (1904 - 1963) was an Estonian writer, a state and social figure.
Written by novels, short prose collections, fairy tale collections, short stories and plays. Famous became known
for the first novel of the Looduse, which won the Grand Prize (60,000 marks) at the first novel competition
of the Looduse Publisher. Occasionally stretched novels are artistically denser short stories.
After the war, he mainly wrote plays that clearly reflect the fight against society from the class.
His first work was on the list of forbidden books for a long time.
Jaan Vahtra (1882 - 1947) was an Estonian artist, writer, journalist and educator.
Jaan Vahtra was one of the modernist artists in Estonia, acting as a painter, book schedule and cartoonist.
The generalizing design of the line and form developed in Petrograd, and the role models there were more powerful
with the vigorous stylized forms of cubofuturism, which is particularly manifested in still life. According to him,
interest in cubism and constructivism began in February 1915 at the exhibition "Tramvai V" at the St. Petersburg Academy
of Arts, including Vladimir Tatlin, Marc Chagall and Vassily Kandinsky.
The preference for a tense stylized form and contrasting local tones continued in Võru. In 1920, illustrations in
his wood cutting technique appeared in the third issue of Ilo magazine. They carried expressionism in themselves,
but at the same time there was also the spirit of Kubofuturism. A year later, he made them "Blanc et Noir"
("White and Black"). His second folder in 1924 was the title "Constructive rhythms". While the first still has sudden
contrasts and dynamics, the second is dominated by the state of the cubism, the peaceful contour rhythm
of the geometrized shapes.
Also in the works of Tartu, especially in the paintings, you can see a strong but peaceful stylization of the forms.
The cubic geometrized format was expressed in his book graph of that time
(Johannes Barbarus' poetry collection "Geometric Man", 1924).