Oofirin kultaa ( 1987 trans Hildi Hawkins in Dona Quixote and Other Citizens Gold of Ophir omni 1995) is a fantasy set in an edifice whose highly various inhabitants comprise the heart of a seemingly Middle-Eastern city its companion volume, Donna Quijote ja muita kaupunkilaisia: Muotokuva (coll 1983 trans in omni cited above), which is set in something like Helsinki, also works as an assemblage of portraits that converge into a vision of the human species. The tone of Tainaron reflects, though not slavishly, the work of Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, and bears some resemblance to Stefan Themerson's Professor Mmaa's Lecture ( 1953), though the focus of the latter book is directed outward from the termite city at its heart.

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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