The True Deceiver
แแฅแข. 2012 ยท New York Review of Books
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Deceptionโthe lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell othersโis the subject of this, Tove Janssonโs 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,ย The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate.ย
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 everybodyโs 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 childrenโs book illustrator, appears to be Katriโs 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 Annaโs 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.
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 everybodyโs 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 childrenโs book illustrator, appears to be Katriโs 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 Annaโs 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.
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Tove Jansson (1914โ2001) was born in Helsinki into Finlandโs Swedish-speaking minority. Her father was a sculptor and her mother a graphic designer and illustrator. Winters were spent in the familyโs art-filled studio and summers in a fishermanโs cottage on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, a setting that would later figure in Janssonโs 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 โ50s 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 magazineย Garm, and it was there that what was to become Janssonโs 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 eleven novels and short story collections for adults, includingย The Summer Bookย andย The True Deceiverย (both available as NYRB Classics). In 1994 she was awarded the Prize of the Swedish Academy. Jansson and her companion, the artist Tuulikki Pietilรค, continued to live part-time in a cottage on the remote outer edge of the Finnish archipelago until 1991.
Ali Smith is the author of seven works of fiction, including the novelย Hotel World, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2001, andย The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award in 2005 and was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.
Thomas Teal has translated Tove Janssonโsย The Summer Book,Sun City, andย Fair Play, for which he was awarded the Bernard Shaw Prize for translation from the Swedish for the years 2007โ2009.
Ali Smith is the author of seven works of fiction, including the novelย Hotel World, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2001, andย The Accidental, which won the Whitbread Award in 2005 and was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.
Thomas Teal has translated Tove Janssonโsย The Summer Book,Sun City, andย Fair Play, for which he was awarded the Bernard Shaw Prize for translation from the Swedish for the years 2007โ2009.
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