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Review of the Estonian hardcover edition (2019) published by EKSA
Andrus Kivirähk's Sinine sarvedega loom (Horned Blue Animal) is another winner by the prolific children's & adult fiction writer which is based on a wild expansion of Estonian and FinnoUgric Mythology. This follows on from his other major adult fantasy novels Rehepapp ehk November (The Old Barny or November) (2000) [not yet available in English, but a film version exists with subtitles called November (2017) dir. Rainer Sarnet] and Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu (translated as The Man Who Spoke Snakish) (2007). Although a back cover synopsis is provided, it actually explains nothing about the book except for setting the scene of an imagined diary and fictional life of Estonian artist Oskar Kallis (1892-1918), best known as a painter of Estonia's mythological hero Kalevipoeg (The Son of Kalev).
Kivirähk's story adheres to only the bare bones of Oskar Kallis' life in the 1910's. Oskar's daily work is a drudgery as a draftsman for the Tsarist Naval Fortification ring around the Gulf of Finland. He studies at the home art studio of Ants Laikmaa (1866-1942) who is only identified by the proxy name of Õpetaja (Teacher) throughout the book. With Laikmaa he draws and paints characteristic national "types" such as farm labourers and peasants while making occasional outings for landscape and forest scenes.
It would be a spoiler to completely discuss the details of the otherworldly life that gradually begins to encroach on Kallis' reality. Suffice it to say that it is somewhat like adventures such as Peter Pan, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe where a passageway is found from this world into another whole dimension or universe. It is only that for Kallis, that dimension is the actual world of Finno-Ugric mythology and that in this book's reality Kallis' paintings or designs of Kalev, Linda, Kalevipoeg, the three-headed King of Snakes, the Siuri Bird, the Maiden of Manala, etc. were drawn from actual live models. Yes, that is how wild this book is, where the cover of a notebook can be imagined as the skin of a fantastical horned blue animal whose cry is like that of a church bell ringing across distant lands.
Trivia and Link
A small selection of Oskar Kallis' work (each of which is tied into the plot of the book) is available in a gallery at the back of Sinine sarvedega loom. An expanded selection of works can be viewed at an online gallery at the Estonian Art Museum website. ( )