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The Summer Book de Tove Jansson

The Summer Book

Autor Tove Jansson Traducere de Thomas Teal
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mai 2008

Structura acestui roman este una fragmentată, dar paradoxal de coerentă, fiind compusă din douăzeci și două de viniete care distilează esența verilor nordice. Putem afirma că The Summer Book nu urmează o traiectorie narativă convențională, ci se aseamănă mai degrabă cu un album de momente luminate de soarele de la miezul nopții sau biciuite de furtuni subite. În centrul acestei lumi izolate, pe o insulă minusculă din Golful Finlandei, le regăsim pe Sophia, o fetiță de șase ani care abia descoperă complexitatea existenței, și pe bunica ei, o femeie înțeleaptă și lipsită de sentimentalisme inutile, care privește viața de la pragul bătrâneții.

Reținem finețea cu care Tove Jansson explorează această relație asimetrică, dar profund egală în spirit. Cele două personaje construiesc bărci din scoarță de copac, creează o Veneție în miniatură și dezbat teme fundamentale precum natura divinității sau inevitabilitatea morții, totul într-un registru de o simplitate înșelătoare. Stilul are ceva din proza lui Karl Ove Knausgaard în Summer, fără să fie o imitație — acolo unde Knausgaard este expansiv și analitic, Jansson alege concizia și observația senzorială directă, lăsând spațiile goale să vorbească de la sine.

Această lucrare ocupă un loc aparte în opera autoarei, marcând tranziția de la universul fantastic al seriei Moomin către o beletristică pentru adulți profund ancorată în realitate. Dacă în Sculptor's Daughter explorările memoriei erau legate de mediul urban al Helsinkiului, aici izolarea insulară devine un personaj în sine. Este un jurnal observațional transformat în ficțiune, unde natura nu este doar un decor, ci un martor tăcut al legăturii dintre generații.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781590172681
ISBN-10: 159017268X
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: B/W ILLUSTRATIONS
Dimensiuni: 128 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o proză contemplativă, departe de agitația conflictelor epice. Este o lectură despre demnitate, independență și modul în care natura ne modelează înțelegerea lumii. Câștigați o perspectivă rară asupra copilăriei și bătrâneții, tratate cu un umor discret și o onestitate tăioasă, într-un format compact care poate fi parcurs într-o singură după-amiază de vară.

Despre autor

Tove Marika Jansson (1914–2001) a fost o scriitoare și artistă finlandeză de limbă suedeză, celebră la nivel mondial pentru crearea universului Moomin. Fiică a unor artiști, a studiat artele plastice la Stockholm, Helsinki și Paris, cariera sa fiind un dialog permanent între text și imagine. Deși a primit Medalia Hans Christian Andersen pentru literatura destinată copiilor, Jansson a scris și șase romane remarcabile pentru adulți. The Summer Book reflectă propria sa experiență de viață pe insula Klovharun, unde s-a retras timp de trei decenii pentru a picta și a scrie în comuniune cu peisajul marin.

Notă biografică

Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was born in Helsinki into Finland’s Swedish-speaking minority. Her father was a sculptor and her mother a graphic designer and illustrator. Winters were spent in the family’s art-filled studio and summers in a fisherman’s cottage on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, a setting that would later figure in Jansson’s writing for adults and children. Jansson loved books as a child, and set out from an early age to be an artist; her first illustration was published when she was fifteen years old; four years later a picture book appeared under a pseudonym. After attending art schools in both Stockholm and Paris, she returned to Helsinki, where in 1940s and ’50s she won acclaim for her paintings and murals. From 1929 until 1953 Jansson drew humorous illustrations and political cartoons for the left-leaning anti-Fascist Finnish-Swedish magazine Garm, and it was there that what was to become Jansson’s most famous creation, Moomintroll,
a hippopotamus-like character with a dreamy disposition, made his first appearance. Jansson went on to write about the adventures of Moomintroll, the Moomin family, and their curious friends in a long-running comic strip and in a series of books for children that have been translated throughout the world, inspiring films, several television series, an opera, and theme parks in Finland and Japan. Jansson also wrote novels and short stories for adults, of which Sculptor’s Daughter, The Summer Book, Sun City, The Winter Book, and Fair Play have been translated into English. In 1994 she was awarded the Prize of the Swedish Academy. Tove Jansson and her companion, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, continued to live part-time in a cottage on the remote outer edge of the Finnish archipelago until 1991.

Kathryn Davis has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of many novels, including Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell, The Walking Tour, The Thin Place, and Versailles. In 2006 she received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and lives in Vermont.

Descriere scurtă

In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent. Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy companionship, build boats from bark, create a miniature Venice, write a fanciful study of local bugs. They discuss things that matter to young and old alike: life, death, the nature of God and of love. “On an island,” thinks the grandmother, “everything is complete.” In The Summer Book, Jansson creates her own complete world, full of the varied joys and sorrows of life.

Tove Jansson, whose Moomintroll comic strip and books brought her international acclaim, lived for much of her life on an island like the one described in The Summer Book, and the work can be enjoyed as her closely observed journal of the sounds, sights, and feel of a summer spent in intimate contact with the natural world. 

The Summer Book is translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal.

Recenzii

"It's deceptively simple, refreshingly unembellished, distilled, grounded in sensory experience, and absolutely direct. It's comforting for precisely the same reasons it's unsettling, like standing on the shore looking across a dark sea at a horizon you swear you could almost touch. " --Rain Taxi

"Poetic understatement, dry humor and a deep love for nature are obvious throughout her oeuvre.... The book is as lovely, as evocative as a film by Hayao Miyazaki." --Time Out New York
“Tove Jansson was a genius. This is a marvelous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny.” –Philip Pullman
“A wise, joyous book...it unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces–old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.” –Rex Reed
“The Summer Book manages to make you feel good as well as wise, without having to make too much effort...[it] says so much that we want to hear in such an accessible form, without ever really saying anything at all.” –The Independent (London)
"Few books since Robinson Crusoe have evoked the joys of island living so powerfully as this Finnish novella." –The Observer, PAPERBACK OF THE WEEK
"The Summer Book is a marvellously uplifting read, full of gentle humour and wisdom." –Daily Telegraph (London)
"A marvellous book...The prose is sublime: plain, but not oppressively so." –Independent on Sunday (London)
"A...beautiful novel which blends humour and poetry with detailed observation of tiny things." –Daily Mail (London)
"It's hard to describe the astonishing achievement of Jansson's artistry...a perfection of the small, quiet read." –The Guardian, (London) BOOK OF THE WEEK
"A wonderful novel to devour in the sunshine...full of charm and character." –The Independent, 50 BEST BOOKS FOR SUMMER
"Every so often, a book is published that captures something in us...The Summer Book is one of those." –Daily Telegraph
“Responses, conversations, and observations yield quietly reflective and funny ruminations on life and death.” –The Age (Australia)
“Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson’s twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.” –Ali Smith
“This is a wonderful, life-affirming, spirited book. Reading it was a tonic.” –Chris Stewart (author, Driving Over Lemons)
“Eccentric, funny, wise, full of joys and small adventures. This is a book for life.” –Esther Freud
"The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives." -Liv Ullmann
"Take a book in which there is no plot but bucketloads of positive feelings presented simply, and it will become a cult. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Jonathan Livingston Seagull were both bestsellers; no one could say what either was really about, but everyone could quote a meaningful truism from them. The Summer Book is in this mould: it manages to make you feel good as well as wise..." -Independent

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An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself.Written in a clear, unsentimental style, full of brusque humour, and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story.Tove Janssoncaptured much of her own life and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of her adult novels. This new edition, with a Foreword by Esther Freud, sees the return of a European literary gem - fresh, authentic and deeply humane.