''Quosego'' was an avant-garde magazine which existed between 1928 and 1929 in Helsinki, Finland. Like its successor ''

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'', it played a significant role in introducing the avant-garde movement to Scandinavian countries. The subtitle of ''Quosego'' was ( sv, Journal for the New Generation). However, ''Quosego'' was much more inflential than its successor in terms of artistic and

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innovation.

History and profile

The preparations to launch ''Quosego'' began in Paris in 1926 by a group including

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, Hjalmar Hagelstam, Yngve Bäck and Torger Enckell. The first, Swedish language, issue was published on 28 May 1928 by the Helsinki-based Söderströms, with Cid Erik Tallqvist as the editor-in-chief. The paper's contributors were mostly

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and

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artists and writers, such as Hagar Olsson and Olof Enckell. The latter presented the reactions of the young Finnish-Swedish poets about the work by

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. The magazine frequently featured poems by Gunnar Björling as well as Swedish translations of those by

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. Björling published his experimental poems in all of the issues of ''Quosego''. The magazine ceased publication in April 1929 after producing four issues.

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History and profile

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