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Kaarlo Uskela, born 4 March 1878 in Tampere, died 19 April 1922 in Helsinki,〔(Uskela, Kaarlo ) Finnish Literature Society. Retrieved 21 September 2015.〕 was a Finnish satiric author, poet and anarchist. Uskela is best known of his 1921 anthology ''Pillastunut runohepo'' which was banned in 1933, eleven years after Uskela's death. Uskela was born into a working-class family in Tampere and worked as a typesetter for several newspapers. From 1900 to 1907 Uskela lived in Sweden where he became interested in anarchism. After returning to Finland, Uskela earned his living as a writer. He wrote columns, short stories and causeries for left-wing newspapers and magazines. Uskela was known as a satirical writer, he was making fun of almost everything, the government, church and bourgeoisie and even the labor movement itself.〔(″Kaarlo Uskela: Vainovuosilta″ ) (in Finnish). Jurin tekstit. 24 September 2009. Retrieved 21 February 2015.〕 After the 1918 Finnish Civil War Uskela was sent to the notorious Tammisaari prison camp for several months, although he was not a member of the Red Guards and did not take part on the war. During his imprisonment, Uskela wrote a collection of poems which were released in his 1921 anthology ''Pillastunut runohepo''. Uskela's last literal work was the posthumous ''Vainovuosilta'' (1923), a non-satirical anthology of short stories about Finnish Civil War. Uskela died of sepsis at the age of 44. He had a dental caries, but Uskela refused to see the dentist and treated it by himself. The result was a fatal sepsis.〔 In 1933, during the right-wing period in Finnish politics, the unsold copies of Uskela's anthology ''Pillastunut runohepo'' were confiscated and burned by a court order. It is the only book Finnish authorities have ever destroyed. Uskela's poetry was accused of atheist views and anti-church elements, but they were also described as ″revolutionary and violent″.〔 This was not the first time his works were banned, before the Independence of Finland in 1918 almost all of Uskela's books were confiscated by the Russian authorities.〔(Kielletyt kirjat - 3. Kotimainen kirjasensuuri ) (in Finnish). Freedom of Speech and Censorship in Finland. Retrieved 21 February 2015.〕 == Selected works == *''Yhteiskunnan varkaat'' (″Thieves of Society″, 1908) *''Villiomenoita'' (″Wild Apples″, 1912) *''Humoreskeja ja runoja'' (″Humoresque and Poetry″, 1913) *''Pillastunut runohepo'' (″Poem Horse Gone Wild″, 1921) *''Vainovuosilta'' (″From the Years of Persecution″, 1923) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kaarlo Uskela」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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