![]() ![]() Krohn's focus on multivariant experiences of urban life may have reached its apotheosis in Tainaron: Postia toisesta kaupungista ( 1985 trans Hildi Hawkins as Tainaron: Mail from Another City 2004), which is structured as a series of letters written from the eponymous city, whose inhabitants are insects and through whose intricate lives it is possible to see, illuminated through this complex mirror, Homo sapiens reflected. ![]() ![]() (1947- ) Finnish author whose first novels were composed for younger readers, an example being Ihmisen vaatteissa: Kertomus kaupungilta ( 1976 trans Bethany Fox as "The Pelican's New Clothes: A Story from the City" in Collected Fiction 2015), whose young protagonist experiences a magical City through his relationship with the eponymous talking bird. ![]()
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