Yet Buckland reads in the books “the grandeur of nature” and “the wonder of creation,” positioning the Moomins as humble “diminutive types representing human traits and foibles” (32–33) but also imbued with “limitlessness” (40). Working through trials associated with winters, floods, comets, earthquakes, and volcanoes, her protagonists struggle against the natural world and its seasons, so that living in nature becomes an erratic and perilous process.Ĭorinne Buckland has discussed some of the threats of nature in the Moomins series. While the iconic image of the lovable Moomins existing in their idyllic “Happy Valley” is pervasive, this article will show how Jansson’s pastoral landscape is often blatantly unkind, pointing to a nature that must be tended and tamed. The titles of Tove Jansson’s Moomins series, including The Moomins and the Great Flood, Comet in Moominland, Moominsummer Madness, and Moominland Midwinter, disclose a recurring interest in landscape and season, leading the Moomins to face a variety of challenges brought by the natural world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The trinity of the masochistic dream is summed up in the words: cold-maternal-severe, icy-sentimental-cruel. Nature herself is cold, maternal and severe.
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