Quosego

Quosego
EditorCid Erik Tallqvist
CategoriesAvant-garde magazine
PublisherSöderströms
FounderElmer Diktonius
Founded1928
First issue28 May 1928
Final issueApril 1929
CountryFinland
Based inHelsinki
LanguageSwedish

Quosego was an avant-garde magazine which existed between 1928 and 1929 in Helsinki, Finland. Like its successor Ultra, it played a significant role in introducing the avant-garde movement to Scandinavian countries.[1] However, Quosego was much more inflential than its successor in terms of artistic and linguistic innovation.[2] The subtitle of Quosego was Tidskrift för ny generation (Swedish: Journal for the New Generation).[1][3]

History and profile

The preparations to launch Quosego began in Paris in 1926 by a group, including Elmer Diktonius, Hjalmar Hagelstam, Yngve Bäck and Torger Enckell.[1] The first, Swedish language, issue was published on 28 May 1928 by the Helsinki-based Söderströms, with Cid Erik Tallqvist as the editor-in-chief.[1] Its contributors were mostly Finland-Swedish expressionist and dadaist artists and writers,[1] such as Hagar Olsson[4] and Olof Enckell.[5] The latter presented the reactions of the young Finnish-Swedish poets about the work by Vilhelm Ekelund.[5] The magazine frequently featured poems by Gunnar Björling as well as Swedish translations of those by Eino Leino.[1] Björling published his experimental poems in all issues of Quosego.[6]

Quosego ceased publication in April 1929 after producing four issues.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Fredrik Hertzberg (2019). "Quosego – Final Blow, Starting Shot". In Benedikt Hjartarson; et al. (eds.). A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950. Vol. 36. Leiden: Brill Rodopi. pp. 196–207. doi:10.1163/9789004388291_010. ISBN 9789004388291. S2CID 187040614.
  2. ^ Ursula Lindqvist (January 2006). "The Paradoxical Poetics of Edith Sodergran". Modernism/modernity. 13 (1): 832. doi:10.1353/mod.2006.0026. S2CID 56100205.
  3. ^ "Quosego: [tidskrift för ny generation] / med inledning av Olof Enckell; utg. av Vitterhetskommissionen". Libris. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  4. ^ Stefan Nygård (2012). "The National and the International in Ultra (1922) and Quosego (1928)". In Hubert van den Berg; et al. (eds.). A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925. Vol. 28. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. p. 341. doi:10.1163/9789401208918_022. ISBN 9789401208918.
  5. ^ a b Eric O. Johannesson (Summer 1984). "Vilhelm Ekelund: Modernism and the Aesthetics of the Aphorism". Scandinavian Studies. 56 (3): 213–234. JSTOR 40918417.
  6. ^ Harri Veivo (November 2015). "Jazzing Up Modernism: Jazz, Popular Culture, and Dada in Henry Parland and Gunnar Björling". Modernism/Modernity. 22 (4): 669. doi:10.1353/mod.2015.0064. S2CID 147258544.