Short stories
Majestāte un pērtiķis
Not translated into English
Mirdza Bendrupe · 1938
Synopsis
Stories and short stories carried by an intense, sensual and spiritual love of life. Mirdza Ķempe, who reviews them in Brīvā Zeme on 30 April 1938, places their author in the small brilliant group of young Latvian prose writers, praises a rich and polished style and the psychological depth of the characters, and sees the strength of the book in its writing and its characters more than in its plots.
Context
The collection appears from Valters un Rapa in Riga in 1938, twelve years after its author's debut in the press, and it precedes Trešā paaudze, a long narrative left unfinished, published in instalments in the first half of 1940. Mirdza Ķempe welcomed the book as soon as it appeared, in the spring of 1938. Its title means the Majesty and the monkey. The database of the Institute of Literature of the University of Latvia classes it among the collections of stories and short stories.
Who it is for
Stories and short stories in a carefully worked language. It is worth knowing that their author is first known as a poet.
Prizes and reception
Welcomed on publication by Mirdza Ķempe, who saw in it the work of one of the most brilliant young Latvian prose writers.