Nature has, likewise, played many roles in children’s and young adults’ literature as early as the nineteenth century.
Since then, the forest has been represented in literature both as a friend and as an enemy, the lost paradise and the wilderness to tame and conquer. Also the seven brothers of the homonymous novel by Aleksis Kivi, the first one to be written in Finnish, flee to the virgin forest far from civilization.
Helsinki, Suomalais (.)ġNature has played a significant role in Finnish literary tradition: the setting of traditional Finnish-Karelian oral poetry is the woods, where trees possess voices and can communicate. Luonto suomalaisessa kirjallisuudessa 1700-1950. 1 Maria Laakso, Toni Lahtinen and Päivi Heikkilä-Halttunen, “Johdatus lasten- ja nuortenkirjallisuude (.).
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