Literature|In his essay, writer Frances Wilson focuses on the dark shades of Jansson’s Moomin stories that have been left under the shade of the characters’ cute.
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British magazine The New Statesman published Frances Wilson’s essay in the dark shades of Moomin in Tove Jansson’s stories.
Wilson sees parallel in the Moomin books for wartime upheavals and highlights the magic winter depression.
According to the essay, Jansson became an unintentional post -war psychic analyst by studying his own psyche through the Moomins.
British Magazine The New Statesman released on Wednesday 9 April The dark side of the Moomins — essaywhere the writer Frances Wilson ponders the mummies and Tove Jansson essence.
This year will become 80 years of the first Moomin story Mummies and a large flood of destruction appearance in 1945.
According to the title, Wilson focuses on the dark shades of Jansson’s stories, which have been left under the characters’ cute shade.
“One of the strangest aspects of the Moomin phenomenon is how these complex stories of destruction, collapse and dysfunction have been misinterpreted as cute praise of home life,” Wilson writes.
Wilson ponders Mummies and a large flood of destruction book parallel for wartime upheavals and evacuees: “It is striking how many of Jansson’s stories are looking for or waiting for something and needs home.”
Next book Moomintroll and Tail Star (1946) also compares with wartime bombing, both in Helsinki, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Wilson writes.
By Jansson There was an ambivalent relationship with the Moomins, the most popular creation, which took time from his visual artist to his career. As the career progressed, the Moomin Stories also turned in darker directions.
Wilson raises, for example Magicbook (1957). According to him, it includes “the most shocking depiction of 20th century literature,” when the Moomintroll wakes up prematurely in the Moomin Valley covered by snow.
In November 1974, King Charles XVI Gustusta of Sweden met Tove Jansson in Hvitträsk, which featured a Moomin exhibition.
Jansson last mummy novel Moomin Valley November was published in 1970 and depicts friends of the Moomin family who are waiting for them in an emptied Moomin Valley.
According to Wilson, the story is a writer’s farewell to the Moomins: if the first book began with the disappearance of the Moomin Papa, the last book has disappeared in the last book.
“When describing the passage of time alone Moomin Valley November It is an absurd masterpiece, ”Wilson writes.
Jansson Outside the novels, of course, the Moomins have often been brighter characters, starting with the cartoon strips he has drawn himself and continuing to many other Moomin products.
In his strips, Jansson still continued to reflect on humanity, Wilson writes, “Jansson became an unintentionally post -war psychiatric analyst, but he did it by examining his own psyche.”