![]() ![]() The Egyptians are presented as a people stuck in a rich/poor society, dominated by a polytheistic priesthood and consanguinious monarchy yet, despite their hardships, resistant to change. Perhaps unusually for a novelist in the 1940s, his scenes of sex and violence are quite graphic and he depicts the realities of life and death in all their sordid and gory detail. Mikael is portrayed as an intellectual but rather naive person. ![]() It is a fictional tale of a young Finnish man, Mikael Karvajalka ( Hairy-foot ), set in 16th century Europe. The strength and beauty of Waltari’s work lies rather in the wealth of historical information and in the interaction of the historical figures he introduces in novel format. The Adventurer (UK title: Michael The Finn original title Mikael Karvajalka) is a novel by Finnish author Mika Waltari, published in 1948. He Egyptian is not a novel to read for great excitement or high romance. What I found surprising in the story is that Nefertiti plays a much lesser role than history implies. The main protagonist and narrator is Sinuhe, priest-physician to the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten (called Akhnaton in the story), whose consort, Nefertiti, is the subject of the above quotation. ![]() The Egyptian is a classic historical novel by Finnish writer Waltari and set in the Egypt of the 14th century BCE. "A woman who combines malice with intelligence and beauty is dangerous indeed – more dangerous still when she can add to this the power of a royal consort." ![]()
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