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The Taming of Matter: Jalmari Finne and the Typewriter
2020
Textual Cultures
This article examines the role of the typewriter in the genetic process of the novel Vuosisatain vaatimus (1918) by the Finnish novelist Jalmari Finne (1874–1939). Finne is a rare example of an early twentieth-century author who mastered touch typing and composed directly on a typewriter. He claimed that he used the typewriter because it enabled him to keep up with his thinking, a claim that challenges Friedrich Kittler's (1990, 193) thesis that the most remarkable feature of the typewriter is
doi:10.14434/textual.v13i2.31601
fatcat:jy43vccbevgf5abkptdotaowka