An ode to Tove Jansson, an artist and writer best known for creating strange and enthralling fictional worlds.
” , continues in the same anxious vein; this time, the looming threat is from outer space. Still, if her stories contain some of the harshness of life, they always end happily, with a joyous return to Moominvalley, family and friends all safe.
What accounts for the popularity of her enigmatic characters? For one thing, Jansson’s intelligent intimacy and humor, which suffuses the books and her letters. She wasn’t drawn to nihilism, like many postwar artists, or to any Freud-inspired movements, with their suggestive, anarchic dreamscapes. In a letter, she deemed Surrealism “seductive but, for me, without potential for development. A gown so sensational one can only wear it for a single season.
Everything that makes me not want to get married came back to me, all the men I’ve seen through and despised. . . . I see what will happen to my Painting if I get married. Because when all is said and done I have in me all those inherited female instincts for solace, admiration, submission, self-sacrifice. Either a bad painter or a bad wife.
To Konikoff, Jansson writes that she “never for a moment saw anything unnatural” in her desire, and, although the affair ended, a longtime friendship and a theatrical collaboration eventually emerged from it. Jansson returned to her boyfriend, Atos, and, in a letter the following year, awkwardly proposed to him that they marry: “It wouldn’t change our way of life, I don’t think. If you don’t want to, we can talk about something else when you get back.
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