Original title Neljä päivänlaskua Country Finland Publication date 1949 Originally published 1949 Page count 194 Published in english 1955 | Translator Alan Beesley Published in English 1955 Publisher Bonnier AB | |
Similar Suuri illusioni, The Roman, Fine van Brooklyn, Komisario Palmun erehdys, The Adventurer | ||
A Nail Merchant at Nightfall (Finnish: Neljä päivänlaskua) is a 1949 novel by the Finnish writer Mika Waltari. It is a fictionalised and humorous account of when Waltari wrote his novel The Egyptian. It was published in English in 1954, translated by Alan Beesley.
Reception
Martin Levin of The Saturday Review described the book as "an involved little allegory in which the temptations of the flesh and the pains of authorship are almost thoroughly obscured by a series of symbolic vignettes." Kirkus Reviews wrote: "A tour de force which may, just possibly, capture the fancy of those looking for something in the vein of allegory, fantasy. ... There are bits of poetic writing here. But the appeal is special."
References
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