“I wish I could be at home with all of you,” she writes, but clearly, she has a taste for travel.Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. She wears a fur coat to “mooch” along the Seine, and when a bookseller says, “Ça va, little wolf,” you know she’s delighted, because she tells her brother Per Olov all about it. By day, she attends the École des Beaux-Arts, wearing her best yellow underpants in case fellow students yank her skirt over her head-one of the school’s rowdy initiation rites. By night, she scopes out clubs like the Boule Blanche and the Cave Apache. An elderly artist and her six year old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds, sudden storms and an occasional passing boat. She might not feel “free,” but she’s having an unabashedly good time, as she recounts in her frequent letters home. The Summer Book is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. In addition to the Moomin books and comics she is well known for her short. Jansson, 23, has left her family in Helsinki to study art in Paris. She was a multitalented artist who is mostly remembered as a creator of the Moomins. ‘I’ ve got to become free myself if I’m to be free in my painting,” Tove Jansson writes to her mother in February 1938. Here’s my intro: Tove Jansson, the writer and artist best known for creating the Moomins, spent her summers on an island in the gulf of Finland with her lifelong partner, Tuulikki Pietila. Tove Jansson (1914-2001), with a Moomintroll doll, in Helsinki, 1954.
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