Why book about Tove Jansson Moomin need every adult

Why is the saga of the Moomins - not for the little ones?

Adventure cute creatures begemotoobraznyh strongly associated with young age. Books Jansson included in school reading lists for summer and do not leave the first line of the rating of the best works for kids of all time.

But let's face it: not every child will master rather monotonous narrative of Moomin share. Modern children accustomed to a more dynamic plot. In addition, many parents are unprepared reading Tove Jansson babies, was surprised to learn that the inhabitants of the valley fabulous smoke, drink, do not go to work, let gases, have children out of wedlock, carelessly thrown for family adventures - and all this without the slightest remorse conscience.

Tove she saw herself in the first place painterAnd to the literature refers both to the side effects. And I certainly did not consider children as the target audience. Jansson has openly stated that he never wanted to become a mother. Creating a universe of the Moomins, she ran into a lost paradise - a serene and disorderly world of his own childhood.

The book Jansson can be useful and interesting for adults?

In fact, in his books the writer embodies the dream of many adults: find a comfort zone with loved ones who unconditionally accept you for who you are. In this ideal world, there is no policy and the need to earn money.

Saga of the Moomins can become a kind of psychotherapy teaches tolerance, it sets a peaceful mood and gives the impression that everything will be fine.

And yet Moomins are worldly wise and can suggest how to see the good in the negative. For example, when Moominpappa smashes a plate, Moominmamma was not angry, but rejoices: "This bowl has always seemed to me ugly."

What is taught Moomins?

Statements Moomin useful to print and re-read every day - as a way to relieve anxietyLearn to develop optimism and positive attitude towards the world.

• "He who eats pancakes with jam, can not be so terribly dangerous."
• "Sometimes all you need to do to appease someone - is to remind him that you're next."
• "Do not become truly free, if you over someone else to admire."
• "At night, it can be either frightening or magical - depending on the company."
• "Everyone has to make their own mistakes."
• "We have to sometimes change anything. Too many things we take for granted, including each other. "
• "Winter is always quite heavy. Nevertheless, snow - it's magic. "
• "To give the outlines of a great dream, need space and silence."
• "Even the most strange people may someday be useful."
• "Awful, when you think that all the great people have died! Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and the rest... And me something unhealthy. "
• "Do not worry. In the world there is nothing worse than us. "

This is only a small part of what can be gleaned from the stories by Tove Jansson about her favorite characters. Therefore, be sure to read the book, especially if you are already out of tender age.

How did the Moomin dollars and who actually were its inhabitants?

Moominvalley Jansson "sketched" with the island of Great Pellinki in the Gulf of Finland, where her family rented a cottage every summer. Vacation, spent in the company of parents, two younger brothers and many friends, Tuva is considered the most happy time in their lives.

The inhabitants of the fantastic country inherited lifestyle Jansson family, as well as character traits and habits of the most Tove, her family and friends.

Moomin - a self-portrait of the writer, its good, a little timid, and always responsive alter ego.

Little My another, more truthful embodiment of Tuva, which was famous for malice, often acted harshly and selfishly.

Moominmamma absorbed the wisdom of Jansson's mother, Swedish artist Signe Hammarshten, which managed to successfully combine career and family with many children.

Moominpappa sometimes become depressed from welfare - a hair's breadth as Tuva father, sculptor Viktor Jansson.

Snusmumrik - Little My brother and best friend Moomin - symbolizes absolute freedom. Prototype hobo single in the green hat became a Finnish politician and journalist Kazimierz Atos Wirtanen, which was engaged Jansson. But shortly before the wedding, the couple broke up.

Tofsla and Vifsla - so again, Tove Jansson and her lover, actress Vivica Bandler. After 30 years, the writer realized that he prefers women. But until 1971 homosexual Communications in Finland is a criminal offense, so Tove hide their relationship. Talking on the phone, close friends used code words. So do Tofsla and Vifsla.

Tuu-tikki - mysterious enchantressThat every spring plays the hurdy-gurdy - deducted from the artist Tuulikki Pietilä. She remained Tove companion for 45 years, until the writer's death in 2001, aged 86.

What does it mean to "live like a Moomin"?

Moomins lead a bohemian lifestyle and indulge in all the pleasures available. They drink coffee and eat delicious pancakes, enjoy socializing with family and love to receive visitors, which is always ready to "put new beds and expand the dining table."

Like all true ScandinaviansSometimes Moomins need to be alone and reflect on life. Close refer to this need with understanding.

Summer Moomins are not averse to travel, and the cold winter hibernate. But even this gloomy they find a magical time.

What was the first Moomin?

First Moomin Tove came up with as a child, had an argument with his brother Per-Olof, future photographer, a philosopher Immanuel Kant. The girl drew a portrait of a thinker on the doors of street toilets, saying that it is the ugliest creature on earth. She subsequently dubbed the character Snork and began to use it instead of the signature image.

Autographs with big-nosed troll can be seen in the anti-Hitler cartoons that Tove created during World War II for Garm magazine.

How do Moomins with time?

The first book of the Moomins "The Moomins and the Great Flood" was published in 1945 in the Swedish language. Heroes, which the writer has drawn in ink, were dull and rather anemic. On their appearance suffered from the fact that during the war Finland experienced a famine.

In peacetime, the characters gradually rounded, reaching a peak weight to the mid-1950s, in the illustration to the novel "Dangerous Summer". Then, according to the observations of researchers, Moomin again a little thinner.

It changed the mood of the narrative itself. The first five books, up to the "Dangerous Summer", filled with adventure. And from the sixth, "The Magic of Winter", the text becomes more philosophical and lyrical, at the forefront of growing themes, relationships and loneliness.

These changes occurred after the meeting of Tuva with the artist Tuulikki Pietilä. Before I met her writer has already tired of his too energetic characters. But love is breathed into the Moomins new, more conscious life.

In what order to read books about the Moomins?

Chronologically, works out in such prioritization:

• 1945 - "The Moomins and the Great Flood" (the book went unnoticed and she was transferred to the English only in 2005 - the last of the entire cycle);
• 1946 - "Comet flies" (the first work that brought Tove success in Finland, it is transmitted indirectly feeling the catastrophe associated with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
• 1948 - "Sorcerer's Hat" (the book begins with the worldwide popularity of Tove Jansson, the novel was translated into 34 languages);
• 1950 - "Memoirs of Moominpappa";
• 1954 - "Dangerous Summer";
• 1957 - "Magic Winter";
• 1962 - a collection of stories, "Child Invisible";
• 1965 - "The Pope and the Sea";
• 1971 - "In the end of November."

Each volume - this is a separate collection of fairy tale or storiesAnd read them in any order, as they do not involve cross-cutting theme. But if you stick to the chronology, it will keep track of the process of growing up Moomin. His views gradually changed, the problem becomes more complex, and the world around - sad.

In the last book, "In late November," Moomin family leaves the valley and without these characters become quite depressed. But in the final, like a ray of hope on the horizon there is a small point. Moomins are returning home.

What's more, you can read and see about the Moomins?

Comics

In 1954, Tuva has signed a contract with the British publisher The Evening News on a comic strip about the Moomins. Draw pictures in the history of the writer helped her brother, an artist Lars Jansson. Since 1960, he worked on the new releases already own. In 1975, the contract ended, and Jansson's family refused to renew.

Cartoons

Long cartoons and full-length animated films about Moomins filmed in Japan and Poland. Six cartoon - based on the novel "The comet flies" and "Sorcerer's Hat" - came out in USSR.

February 25, 2019 in the Finnish TV channel Yle started the Finnish-British animated series "Moomin". Moomin troll in it the voice of Taron Egerton, Moomin Mama - Rosamund Pike, and Kate Winslet gave his voice Filifonke.

Books by other authors

Tove Jansson was not greedy and during the life of shared right to write new stories about the Moomins with other authors. The most famous of them - Harald Sonesson - he illustrates his books in the spirit Jansson.