Moominvalley in November (Moomins Fiction)

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Saved by a new duster (‘I shall never use old dusters again’) she enjoys an awakening – momentarily seeing the world from a new angle. Six depressed and solitary people separately decide to visit this one family that has always made them feel like life is worth living. At last the final installment is being published – oddly, the only book that features none of the Moomin family themselves, though it does take place at their house. She lost herself in her work shut in her island hut, which she described in a letter as being surrounded by ‘a thick fog; all four windows white and the cottage seems to be sailing through empty space. It was a place where people were always turning up unexpectedly, where sometimes—as Jansson wrote in Finn Family Moomintroll— “unexpected and disturbing things used to happen, but nobody ever had time to be bored, and that is always a good thing.

Moominvalley in November has a unique touch of sweet meloncholy, when you read it, you feel like missing a place you've never been. Apsurdne situacije i egzistencijalističke teme (gubitak, besmisao, irealni strahovi, zaborav, starost, stvaralaštvo, samoća, izolovanost) i motiv čekanja navode negde da se „Novembar u Dolini Mumijevih” posmatra kao neka vrsta „Čekajući Godoa” za decu.He had that simple but rare ability to retain his own warmth, he gathered it all round him and lay very still and took care not to dream. dziecięca wersja "Czekając na Godota" - tylko czekając na Muminki - albo "Sześciu postaci w poszukiwaniu autora" - tylko cztery postaci poboczne szukają Muminków. They show up unannounced on the Moomin's doorstep, expecting solace and cheer, and instead they find emptiness and despair in a bleak, lonely house. In the ‘difficult’ final Moomin novel, Tove Jansson takes the audacious step of entirely excising her core cast, focusing instead on a disparate group visitors who gather at the family’s home, but find them missing. It was a move that didn’t exactly go down well with readers at the time: Moominvalley in November was anticipated like a new Harry Potter, and people gathered together to read the book aloud.

That story saw the restless patriarch taking his brood away from the valley and off to an exposed lighthouse, apparently for good. Moominvalley in November is the last book in The Moomins series and definitely one of my favourite books written by Tove Jansson. If you like your children books to be depressing and bleak you couldn't do much better than Moominvalley in November. It will be wet and a bit melancholic, but you will also learn how to keep warm and to appreciate that darkness has its perks as well.Toft, a new character, is of course Jansson's avatar in this story, which adds a melancholy element of metafiction as she tries to say goodbye to the characters that had overtaken her life. There, Toft finds an old microbiology textbook, and misinterpreting it as a story, creates a monster in his imagination, which appears to develop a life of its own.

Man regis, o gal tiesiog taip gerai nebeprisimenu kitų, bet paskutinė ciklo knyga yra filosofiškiausia iš visų. There familiar characters converge – Snufkin, the Hemulen, Fillyjonk, and others – seeking out the Moomins' welcoming company, only to find them absent. The fact that the owners are gone doesn't stop the uninvited guests from making themselves at home, raiding the pantry and tracking mud into the house.Televizijska serija nikad nije ekranizovala poslednji deo, verovatno jer su Japanci mislili da je u njemu sunce prebrzo „zašlo”, a mrak junake previše „snašlo” da bi postao deo dečjag TV serijala, što opet pokazuje koliko je prostor književnosti, posebno kada je u pitanju prostor za decu, mnogo slobodniji nego teren drugih medija. And combined with Tove Jansson’s spot on but also really quite verbally, textually dreary descriptions of a typical Scandinavian November (with less and less sun every day, with copious clouds, fog and very much cold and miserable rain), and even though I do think that Kingsley Hart’s translation successfully and nicely flowingly mirrors Tove Jansson’s original Swedish text, for me, Moominvalley in November is textually just not all that pleasant as a personal reading experience and therefore also only a two star rating and certainly rather an emotional downer with which to end Tove Jansson’s Moomins series. In this one, the Moomins are gone (away at the lighthouse), and everyone who shows up at their door for help instead has to figure out what to do about their own problems.