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The True Deceiver de Tove Jansson

The True Deceiver

Autor Tove Jansson Traducere de Thomas Teal
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 dec 2009

În genul ficțiunii contemporane, puține voci reușesc să subverseze așteptările cititorului cu atâta precizie precum o face Tove Jansson în acest roman. Dacă în alte scrieri autoarea explorează lumina și căldura relațiilor umane, în The True Deceiver asistăm la o disecție rece a onestității și a manipulării. Suntem de părere că această operă reprezintă un punct de cotitură în bibliografia sa pentru adulți, îndepărtându-se de seninătatea din The Summer Book pentru a plonja într-un studiu psihologic despre modul în care ne construim și ne apărăm iluziile.

Atmosfera este una de izolare cvasi-absolută: un sat nordic acoperit de troiene, unde singura activitate este schimbul de povești. Notăm cu interes contrastul dintre cele două figuri centrale. Katri Kling, o femeie care respinge „minciunile albe” necesare conviețuirii sociale, decide să preia controlul asupra vieții lui Anna Aemelin, o ilustratoare retrasă. Ritmul lecturii este dictat de această tensiune mocnită, o luptă de idei care se ascute pe măsură ce zăpada se topește. Din punct de vedere stilistic, proza este de o acuratețe chirurgicală, evitând orice exces sentimental.

Romanul amintește de The Liar de Martin Hansen prin atmosfera de singurătate spirituală și izolarea geografică a unei comunități captive în gheață, dar se diferențiază prin natura prădătoare a interacțiunii dintre cele două femei. Spre deosebire de explorările ludice din seria Moomin sau de melancolia blândă din The Summer Book, The True Deceiver ne confruntă cu o întrebare inconfortabilă: este oare onestitatea absolută o formă de cruzime? Este o lectură densă, în care tăcerile dintre personaje cântăresc la fel de mult ca dialogul.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781590173299
ISBN-10: 1590173295
Pagini: 181
Dimensiuni: 126 x 204 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un roman psihologic rafinat, lipsit de clișee. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra puterii și a modului în care identitatea noastră este modelată de privirea celorlalți. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care vor să descopere latura întunecată a celebrei Tove Jansson, într-o ediție în limba engleză care păstrează toată rigoarea și frumusețea stilului său original.

Despre autor

Tove Jansson (1914–2001) a fost o figură polivalentă a culturii finlandeze de limbă suedeză, remarcându-se ca pictoriță, ilustratoare și scriitoare. Deși faima sa internațională este legată indisolubil de universul Moomin, pentru care a primit Medalia Hans Christian Andersen în 1966, cariera sa pentru adulți este la fel de remarcabilă. Începând cu volumul autobiografic Sculptor's Daughter, Jansson a explorat teme complexe precum solitudinea și arta. The True Deceiver rămâne cea mai provocatoare lucrare a sa, reflectând educația sa artistică și capacitatea de a observa natura umană fără menajamente.

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 the 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 The Sculptor’s Daughter, The Summer Book, Sun City, Fair Play, and The True Deceiver have been translated into English. In 1994 she was awarded the Prize of the Swedish Academy. 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.

Thomas Teal has translated Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book, Sun City, and Fair Play.

Ali Smith is the author of seven works of fiction, including the novel Hotel World, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2001, and The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award in 2005 and was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.

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A New York Review Books Original

Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate.
 
Snow has been falling on the village all winter long. It covers windows and piles up in front of doors. The sun rises late and sets early, and even during the day there is little to do but trade tales. This year everybody’s talking about Katri Kling and Anna Aemelin. Katri is a yellow-eyed outcast who lives with her simpleminded brother and a dog she refuses to name. She has no use for the white lies that smooth social intercourse, and she can see straight to the core of any problem. Anna, an elderly children’s book illustrator, appears to be Katri’s opposite: a respected member of the village, if an aloof one. Anna lives in a large empty house, venturing out in the spring to paint exquisitely detailed forest scenes. But Anna has something Katri wants, and to get it Katri will take control of Anna’s life and livelihood. By the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a conflict of ideals that threatens to strip them of their most cherished illusions.

Recenzii

" Her description is unhurried, accurate and vivid, an artist's vision... The sentences are beautiful in structure, movement and cadence. They have inevitable rightness. And this is a translation! Thomas Teal deserves to have his name on the title page with Jansson's: he has worked the true translator's miracle....the most beautiful and satisfying novel I have read this year. "  —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian

"...a dark companion to her glowing The Summer Book.  Here the setting is winter, and the almost Highsmithian subject concerns a woman who inveigles herself in the life of a famous, and rich, writer. Jansson's writing is, as always, understated yet acute and thrilling."  — Los Angeles Times

"...Jansson crafts an unsentimental – often mischievous – novel of ideas that asks whether it is better to be kind than to be truthful, especially for an artist. Ali Smith’s excellent introduction expresses shock and delight that there is still fiction by Jansson untranslated into English. After reading this gem, who could disagree?" —Financial Times

"I loved this book...understated yet exciting, and with a tension that keeps you reading. I felt transported to that remote region of Sweden and when I finished it I read it all over again. The characters still haunt me." — Ruth Rendell

"Tove Janssen is a great, engaging talent -- a serious, complex, occasionally macabre novelist as well as a major and versatile painter who has worked for fifty years in the artistic mainstream. In Scandinavia, she is regarded as a treasure. As we come better to understand her achievement, we honor her likewise" — The HornBook

"...as this narrative ticks forward, it becomes evident that a book of almost inscrutable intricacy is being built from so many simple, separate components gradually enmeshing. "
--Theodore McDermott, The Believer

Descriere

Deception--the lies people tell themselves and the lies they tell others--is the subject of Jansson's most unnerving and unpredictable novel to date.