Abstract
The article analyzes by means of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu one of the bitterest feuds in the literary and even non-literary Swedish Finland, the so-called Tikkanen-Kihlman debate in the 1970s. Henrik Tikkanen and Christer Kihlman are Finland-Swedish writers with upper-class background (Bourdieu's term: the dominant class).
In a kind of introduction the article outlines the reception of Tikkanen's and Kihlman's books before 1975. The main parts of the article deal with the reception of the books published in 1975 (A Winter's Day/Snobs' Island; Sweet Prince) and the following debate in 1976.
The article continues in T. Söderling's earlier literature research concerning the Finland-Swedish M-debatten (1965), the polemics on modernism.