Re: Mondo Moomin
stephen wilson <[email protected]>
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(To bring this discussion back around the circle:) I was reading an interview with this avant-jazz violist Eyvind Kang - and he said something like, " I want to make a life outside the grid of capitalism. Music has existed, does exist, will exist without the music business. Just the other week I read, they found a frozen body in the Himalayas, 10,000 years old. He had a flute, and a bag of pot." The original Snufkin? I always thought those Hemulens were hilarious. And the sad Fillyjonk. The characters in these Moomin books are complicated creatures! Like grownups - which is why kids respond to these books so well. Jarmo Nousiainen <[email protected]> wrote: > Jarmo, > My recollection is that Jannson was a Swedish speaking Finn, yes? And > so > the Moomin books were first published in Swedish? In Sweden? But she > is > fully embraced by the Finnish speaking Finns? Yes, you're right: the Moomin books were first published in Swedish. The first book was called "Smetrollen och den stora vversvdmningen", "The Little Trolls and the Big Flood". I do not know whether they were published in Finland or Sweden back then. My favourite character is Little My, and as for specific acts, I just love the one where the Moomintroll wonders what Christmas is actually all about! You find it in "Moominland Midwinter". The Moomin characters are very popular here. Finland Post has also issued several Moomin stamps since the 1990s. > I've always seen the big humor-less Hemulins as a satire on the > Germans-- > an antipathy coming out of Finland's participation in the WWII Axis? It is quite possible! In the 1930s the political journal "Garm" published her drawings clearly protesting against the Nazi regime. > She also wrote an adult novel about a grim old folks home in the US. > Set in > Florida, I think. I have not read this novel but it must be "Solstaden", "Sun City". Jarmo --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP.