In the canon
The Unknown Soldier
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1954
- Originally in
- Originally in Finnish
- Pages
- Pages 460
Every man in this machine-gun company talks the way his village talks, and that is where the love begins. Väinö Linna carried guns through the Continuation War himself, and he gave his soldiers back their dialects, their filthy jokes, their contempt for parade-ground officers and their pride, so that a whole country recognised its sons.
Jorma Kariluoto had paid his tax to the shared stupidity of mankind.
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