Boy Devil

Translated by Seija Paddon.

Kirsti Simonsuuri, the outstanding contemporary Finnish novelist, has written an intelligent and complex story that raises profound and intriguing questions about the nature of obsession, love, longing, sadness, and joy. Her novel, Boy Devil, through a web of multiple intertexts, fictionalizes the life of French-Jewish philosopher, Simone Weil, making clear that anyone’s cultural inheritance is infinitely complex. Simonsuuri has found her own literary form within which imagination and memory, dream, poetry, and the imperfections of life come into their own.

Kirsti Simonsuuri is an internationally known writer, poet, and literary critic. Translations of her poetry and prose have been published in Germany, France, Hungary, England, the United States, and now in Canada.