These letters, penned with characteristic insight and wit, provide an almost seamless commentary on Jansson’s life within Helsinki’s bohemian circles and on her island home. Shifting between hope and despair, yearning and happiness, they describe her immersion in art studies and her ascension to fame with the Moomins. They speak frankly of friendship and love, loneliness and solidarity, and also of politics, art, literature, and society. They summon a particular place and time reflected through a mind finely attuned to her culture, her world, and her own natureall clearly put into biographical and historical context by the volume’s editors, both longtime friends of Tove Janssonand, in the end, draw a complex, intimate self-portrait of one of the world’s most beloved authors.
These letters, penned with characteristic insight and wit, provide an almost seamless commentary on Jansson’s life within Helsinki’s bohemian circles and on her island home. Shifting between hope and despair, yearning and happiness, they describe her immersion in art studies and her ascension to fame with the Moomins. They speak frankly of friendship and love, loneliness and solidarity, and also of politics, art, literature, and society. They summon a particular place and time reflected through a mind finely attuned to her culture, her world, and her own natureall clearly put into biographical and historical context by the volume’s editors, both longtime friends of Tove Janssonand, in the end, draw a complex, intimate self-portrait of one of the world’s most beloved authors.
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ISBN-13: | 9781452963822 |
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Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
Publication date: | 03/10/2020 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 496 |
File size: | 8 MB |