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Olavi Paavolainen (1903 - 1964) was a Finnish essayist, journalist, travel book writer, poet and since 1940 a member of the Nazi inspired Finland's national socialist worker organization SKT (Suomen Kansallissosialistinen Työjärjestö). He often went under the pseudonym of Olavi Lauri. Paavolainen was the central figure of the literary group Tulenkantajat (The Flame Bearers) and one of the most influential literary opinion leaders between the two World wars in Finland. He represented liberal and Europe oriented views of culture and had an eclectic eye for new ideas. In the late 1920s Paavolainen praised urban life, technology, and roaring cars in his works centering on modernism as the Italian Futurist poet F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944) had done two decades earlier. In the 1930s and 1940s he published a number of works that controversially criticised the members of the Nazi cabinet in Germany and later the Continuation War (1941–44) between Finland and the Soviet Union. According to current research however he is thought to have been a staunch political Nazi sympathizer before 1945 and to have forged at a later date much of the criticism of Nasism in his books that he claimed to have written before 1945. This and samples of his pro-Nazi articles and letters written before 1945 are described in researcher Panu Rajala's book ''Tulisoihtu Pimeään''. This is also concurred by his longtime friend Matti Kurjensaari in his book ''Loistava Olavi Paavolainen'' wherein he writes that Olavi specifically forged some of his travel book notes supposed to have been dated 1938 in his book ''Synkkä Yksinpuhelu'' ("A Solemn Monologue") published in 1946. ==Early life== Olavi Paavolainen was born in Kivennapa, Carelia, in the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1903. Paavolainen descended from a family of civil servants and soldiers. His father, Pietari (Pekka) Paavolainen, was a lawyer and Member of Parliament and his mother was named Alice Laura (Löfgrén). In 1914, he moved to Helsinki where he started to write poems already at the age of twelve. He later studied aesthetics and literature at the University of Helsinki from 1921 to 1925, but without graduating. While studying at the university, Paavolainen already started to publish critics and poems. The young poet Katri Vala, whose first book appeared in 1924, was instrumental in encouraging Paavolainen in his choice of literary career. In the same year Paavolainen contributed to the anthology Nuoret runoilijat I ("Young Poets I") under the pseudonym Olavi Lauri, which he used some years. During this early period, Paavolainen was interested in nudism, and he deemed the works of Comtesse de Noailles important for his development. In his letters to Vala, Paavolainen also expressed his interest in fine suits, and mocked himself as a dandy. However he was heterosexual, particularly attracted to older powerful women, and among his friends was the notorious Minna Craucher, who had contacts to the far right-wing Lapua movement. Craucher was murdered in 1932. 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「Olavi Paavolainen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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