"The manuscript runs to about 26 pages, but it breaks off in the middle of a sentence," Flieger explains. "He had just got to the climax, the most dramatic scene, and it stops. There is no full stop, no continuation of any kind. Only the words 'so terrible his haste'..."
The story of Kullervo (L’histoire de Kullervo) raconte les aventures d’un héros finnois est sort aujourd'hui en angleterre. La professeure Verlyn Flieger de l'université du Maryland, évoque son travail sur ce texte :