Maria Jotuni 45 min read

Tales touched with the fantastic and the folkloric, gathered under the sign of the Black Bull, from a distinctive Finnish literary voice.

Maria Jotuni's 1915 Finnish collection ('The Black Bull') gathers stories with imaginative and folk-tinged elements. Sharp, evocative period fiction. Read it for the work of a notable Finnish writer, blending everyday life with strands of the fantastic.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

45 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).