Who wrote this novel? J I Vatanen was not a real person; he was a heteronym-a characterized pseudonym-of a strange Finnish author named Algot Untola, who was arrested as a Red agitator at the end of the Finnish Civil War in May, 1918, and summarily sentenced and shot. This novel is "J I Vatanen's" "memoir" of the events leading up to that violent death and its tragicomic aftermath. But who wrote it? Douglas Robinson,...