Przyznaję, że czytałam Muminki tylko w podstawówce, dopiero teraz do nich wracam i byłam przygotowana na doznanie emocjonalne, a tutaj doznałam wstrząsającego doświadczenia intelektualnego.

Grandpa-Grumble gets a stomach ache and refuses to take his medicines till the others throw him and the Ancestor a party. I do think that the absence of the center family, Moomins, creates a brilliant atmosphere and I love how lonely the whole book is.Nothing other than waiting, and hope, and friendship, and the fear of living in a world we only partly understand, and a sense that life could be somehow different, if we could only work out how, or could drum up the courage to change things. Instead it focuses on a set of other characters, including Snufkin, who come to live at Moominhouse during the onset of winter whilst its inhabitants are away, and the various interactions which they have with each other. There familiar characters converge – Snufkin, the Hemulen, Fillyjonk, and others – seeking out the Moomins' welcoming company, only to find them absent. All of these characters have their own fears and thoughts that are intensified in the cold and lonely house.

In the United States the series beginning with Finn Family Moomintroll (first published in English in 1945) has accumulated generations of fans. In fact, if there was a love affair between elderly Grandpa-Grumble and the young, hot Mymble, this could be one of Woody Allen's later, unfunny films. Televizijska serija nikad nije ekranizovala poslednji deo, verovatno jer su Japanci mislili da je u njemu sunce prebrzo „zašlo”, a mrak junake previše „snašlo” da bi postao deo dečjag TV serijala, što opet pokazuje koliko je prostor književnosti, posebno kada je u pitanju prostor za decu, mnogo slobodniji nego teren drugih medija. However, the Ancestor does not appear, as Grandpa-Grumble had mistaken his own reflection in a mirror upstairs for the Ancestor, to whom he makes everyone give a toast.And yet by the end, the absence has served to allow our difficult, mildly irritating protagonists to learn a bit more about themselves, their abilities and limitations, and those of the family they once idolized or took for granted. To celebrate autumn, this blog dives into some of Tove Jansson‘s enchanting autumn descriptions from the book Moominvalley in November(1970). Moominvalley in November, the final novel in the series, was published in 1970 and serves as a beautiful and deeply subtle valediction to the world of the Moomins. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.