Feeling Backward: Border State thirty years later by Raili Marling ELM 2/2023 ••• This year marks the thirtieth birthday of Tõnu Õnnepalu’s, aka Emil Tode’s Border State (1993), one of the most widely translated contempor...
Tõnu Õnnepalu: A Writer is a Saboteur, a Spy, a Dubious Character by Maia Tammjärv ELM 2/2023 ••• Thirty years have passed since the release of Border State, a novel by Tõnu Õnnepalu (b. 1962) that was published under the pseudonym E...
Who Could Hold All the World’s Beauty? by Joonas Hellerma ELM 2/2023 ••• The reception of Emil Tode’s Border State (1993) was shaped by multiple elements that were novel to Estonian literature of the time, i...