トーベ・ヤンソン短篇集 黒と白

by Tove Jansson, Mayumi Tomihara (Translator)

ムーミン作家トーベ・ヤンソンは、じつは子供のこだわりと大人のユーモアやペーソスがない交ぜになった味わい深い小説やエッセイの作者でもある。多くの名作短篇のなかから、明るく楽しい作品を編んだ「トーベ・ヤンソン短篇集」に対し、本書はいわばそのダークサイド。シニカルでいて愛に溢れた独特の作品群は、気むずかしく気位が高い老人のよう。まさにヤンソンの本領が発揮された一冊。

286 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2012

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.