6/12/2023 0 Comments Moomin tales![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the commentators on the film suggests that she was working-off her wartime anxieties. The first two stories did not attract much notice. And so, her enchanted valley began to take shape, with the Moomin family at its heart, sensible, stable and supportive, along with a cast of little mythical creatures that children still love to identify with. But in place of children, she would have Moomins. The shock of the war convinced her that she should stay out of marriage - any sons would surely perish in some conflict or other. Despite the smiling images of her old age, this person who brought the world so much happiness did not seem to experience much of it herself. Instead she was attending to her first love, fine art, where her achievements tended to be ignored, much to her chagrin. ![]() It is tempting to attribute Tove's wonderfully clean-swept prose to these wind-buffeted surroundings, although her most famous work was already behind her by this time. One of the few who did attain it was Tove Jansson, author of the Moomin stories, who built her own home on a tiny uninhabited island in the Gulf of Finland. Creative artists often yearn in vain for total privacy. ![]()
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