5. Literary Impressionism and Finland. A critical digest

The aim of the following paragraphs is to bring into focus the concept of literary impressionism mainly within the context of Finland-Swedish literature. The attempt is to show to what extent the critical debate in Finland-Swedish reviews and newspapers demonstrated an awareness of the idea of impressionism in literary writing and what aspects of the phenomenon this understanding encapsulated. This has been done by undertaking a survey of the use of the term in the literary criticism present .