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...
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...