* Indigo
by Peeter Sauter
 
Tallinn 1990, pp. 224
 
 
Peeter Sauter has become a writer who gives rise to debate. "Indigo"is about
the everyday life of the idle youth in the '80s. Sauter's prosedefiantly
presents the drab everyday, the so-called ordinary person's
consciousness,his prosaic workday. This is more or less how the prose of the
'60s startedoff under the guidance of Mati Unt, as under Vaino Vahing in the
'70s.Their everyday life has, however, obtained a shade of the dull gold
ofyouth by now. Sauter's characters do not seek anything high-minded
andspecial; they believe nothing, they have no hopes which distinguish
themfrom Mati Unt's generation of the '60s. They live for the moment and
believein chance. Their world is fragmented, they despise pretty words.
Sauterintentionally uses low colloquial language, trying at the same time
toraise it to the level of a "higher" style, through his
characters'naturalness and unpretentiousness. Like Sauter's next stories,
"Indigo"depicts the fragmentary everyday life of the young.
 
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