Images of My Life

A fascinating novel about the necessity of writing and about how stories and characters are born.

The narrator travels to Davos in Switzerland. As a child she suffered from tuberculosis and imagined this town as a magic, healing place like in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

During the journey, she thinks about her experiences as a child and the constant presence of death, and about how it has affected her work. How memories and reminiscences became part of fictive characters’ lives. And how writing has supported her throughout the hardships.

In this autobiographical novel, Riitta Jalonen creates a bright view of a writer’s inner landscape. It shows how certain life events and emotions can drive to writing and are transformed into a fictional story.

Images of My Life is a journey into a writer’s mind and experience, where the author ponders about a whole life of writing and about how at the same time writing is connected to everything else in life.

A fascinating novel about the necessity of writing and about how stories and characters are born.

The narrator travels to Davos in Switzerland. As a child she suffered from tuberculosis and imagined this town as a magic, healing place like in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

During the journey, she thinks about her experiences as a child and the constant presence of death, and about how it has affected her work. How memories and reminiscences became part of fictive characters’ lives. And how writing has supported her throughout the hardships.

In this autobiographical novel, Riitta Jalonen creates a bright view of a writer’s inner landscape. It shows how certain life events and emotions can drive to writing and are transformed into a fictional story.

Images of My Life is a journey into a writer’s mind and experience, where the author ponders about a whole life of writing and about how at the same time writing is connected to everything else in life.

info

  • Year of publication

    2022

  • Original title

    Omat kuvat

  • Page count

    164

  • Original publisher

    Tammi

Reviews

  • Sirpa Kähkönen

    ”Humans, real and imagined, wander from one soul to another. This is Riitta Jalonen’s book’s most profound achievement: make the private shared. And the marvel of experiencing the falling snow, which makes you wonder how she does that.”

  • Siri Kolu

    ”It feels like I got a writing grammar. The words that express the physical experience of writing. The words that express why a writer’s job is to depict and make visible this humanity that we should defend by all means.”

  • Helsingin Sanomat

    ”Riitta Jalonen’s ’Images of My Life’ is a journey into the mind and memories.”

  • Tuijata. Kulttuuripohdintoja Blog

    ”’Images of My Life’ is a reflection of its narrator and is more exposed than Riitta Jalonen’s other works, so much that the strong emotions of the book gave me goosebumps.”

  • Kirjallisia kävelyjä Blog

    ”It feels like I got closer to myself when reading this book […] and a strong feeling of life has overcome me.”

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