ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
disappearance of spiritual interests in Rataste vahel (Between the Wheels). Valton
displayed himself as a refined satirist and keen-sighted psychologist.
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Nõukogude Eesti: entsüklopeediline teatmeteos (Soviet Estonia: An Encyclopaedic Reference Book)
(Tallinn: Valgus 1978) 41.
In prose, there is a remarkable variety of themes, genres and ways of
presentation. Sometimes the works are built up in a cinematic manner. Influences from
Western psychoanalysts, absurd theatre and surrealism became obvious together with
radicalisation in expression (Mati Unt, Jüri Üdi). The war theme still persisted.
Raimond Kaugver (1926-1992) exposed the complicated path of his hero through
occupations, deportation to Siberia and the less than sincere wellbeing of Soviet times
in Nelikümmend küünalt (Forty Candles). Reflections on the future of Estonia, and
nonsensical episodes from collective farm life without adornments were described by
Heino Kiik (b
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