What picaresque 1928 novel by August Gailit follows a vagabond wanderer travelling through rural Estonia each summer seeking romance and adventure?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Toomas Nipernaadi
- Step 1: August Gailit created one of Estonian literature's most enduring archetype characters in Toomas Nipernaadi (1928). Step 2. The titular protagonist is an imaginative, romantic wanderer who invents tall tales and enchants village women before returning home in autumn. Answer: Toomas Nipernaadi. Why not the others: Hingede öö (1953) is a modernist surrealist novel by Karl Ristikivi; Popi ja Huhuu (1914) is a symbolist novella by Tuglas.
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