Maloe sobranie sochinenii/Yansson T.

by Tove Jansson

Tuve Jansson po pravu mozhno nazvat odnoj iz samykh zagadochnykh pisatelnits proshlogo stoletija. Buduchi dovolno zakrytym chelovekom, oberegavshim lichnuju zhizn ot postoronnikh, Tuve vse zhe schedro napolnjala svoi proizvedenija avtobiograficheskimi detskimi vospominanijami, zapakhom gipsa i masljanykh krasok, solenym morskim vozdukhom i tvorcheskimi iskanijami. Lakonichno rasskazyvaja o povsednevnom, Jansson umelo vydeljala glavnoe, slovno sostavljala instruktsiju svoej zhizni. Ee soznanie tvortsa ne bylo zatumaneno dazhe uspekhom skazok o mumi-trolljakh i obrushivshejsja vmeste s nim populjarnostju. Glubina i kharakter proslavlennoj pisatelnitsy v polnoj mere raskryvajutsja cherez vse raznoobrazie ee tekstov. V dannoe izdanie voshli povesti "Letnjaja kniga" i "Chestnyj obman", sborniki rasskazov "Umejuschaja slushat" i "Igrushechnyj dom", a takzhe vpervye perevedennye na russkij jazyk rannie novelly i esse "Bulvar i drugie teksty".

576 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish.

Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.

Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.

Jansson's Moomin books have been translated into 33 languages.