Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins, was born August 9, 1914.
Finland is celebrating.
I love her Moomins because they are adorable and cute and acquainted with suffering.
They say things such as...
Ha, ha, no, that last one is Camus. People calligraphy that quote onto greeting cards, but not his lines from the same essay, “Yes, there is beauty and there are the humiliated. ... I would like never to be
unfaithful either to one or the other.” *
Jansson, too, was faithful to beauty and humiliation.
You could imagine her illustrating an edition of, say, Kierkegaard.
Jansson was a painter and a novelist as well as a cartoonist.
You can see some of her work and read about her life at the Finnish National Gallery.
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You can read Camus' essay "Return to Tipasa" online here.
Finland is celebrating.
I love her Moomins because they are adorable and cute and acquainted with suffering.
They say things such as...
and...
and...
Jansson, too, was faithful to beauty and humiliation.
You could imagine her illustrating an edition of, say, Kierkegaard.
Jansson was a painter and a novelist as well as a cartoonist.
You can see some of her work and read about her life at the Finnish National Gallery.
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You can read Camus' essay "Return to Tipasa" online here.
