Pippi and the Moomins
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Pippi and the Moomins
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#2Discussed a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24796797
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#3I remember rereading Pippi to my son and marveling at how authority subversive it was.
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#4If you are curious about the Moomins, be aware that a lot of low quality material have been created by the estate which inherited the rights. Look for the books written and illustrated by Tove Jansson. They are some of the best Scandinavian literature and the illustrations are amazing.
Jansson also illustrated some books by other authors, for example The Hobbit: https://imgur.com/gallery/njtkL
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#5There's a similar author in Russia, Nikolai Nosov [1]
He wrote most heart-warming stories for children or about children during WWII. If you read Russian, here's a great article about him: [2]
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And the truth is that Nosov began writing stories shortly before the war (the first publication was in 1938), but the most famous, the brightest and most memorable were written in the most terrible years. Forty-first to forty-fifth.
The most important thing is that when you know the answer, annoyance immediately wakes up - well, of course, it's understandable! All young heroes have only mothers, where the fathers have gone is not clear. And in general there are not many male characters for the entire cycle: a rather elderly, apparently, "Uncle Fedya" on the train, who was all indignant at the recitation of poetry, and the leader Vitya, apparently, was a high school student. Ascetic life to the limit, jam with bread as a delicacy ...
But still there is no war there. Not by word, not by hint, not by spirit. I don’t need to explain why. Because this is for children. For children to whom life has already measured so much that God forbid us to find out.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Nosov
[2] https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/2008/11/27/a_2897371.shtml
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#6There's a similar author in Russia, Nikolai Nosov [1] He wrote most heart-warming stories for children or about children during WWII. If you read Russian, here's a great article about him: [2] --- quote, Google translate --- And the truth is that Nosov began writing stories shortly before the war (the first publication was in 1938), but the most famous, the brightest and most memorable were written in the most terrib…
> There's a similar author in Russia, Nikolai Nosov [1]
It is worth noting that he alse wrote Dunno on the Moon - hardcore communist propaganda for children.
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#7I find the subtitle is weird (at least for the Pippi part):'left propaganda and prudery behind.'. Prudery in my understand mostly refers to a person 'being more uncomfortable than most with sexuality or nudity.'. Maybe it is used in a different sense here, but the Pippi book do not take any position on sexuality or nudity (like Disney in movies, parents are absent (father later joins in)).
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#8I find the subtitle is weird (at least for the Pippi part):'left propaganda and prudery behind.'. Prudery in my understand mostly refers to a person 'being more uncomfortable than most with sexuality or nudity.'. Maybe it is used in a different sense here, but the Pippi book do not take any position on sexuality or nudity (like Disney in movies, parents are absent (father later joins in)).
Prudery is not specifically about sexuality but more generally being overly concerned about "manners" and "proper behavior", something Pippi completely disregards.
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#9I find the subtitle is weird (at least for the Pippi part):'left propaganda and prudery behind.'. Prudery in my understand mostly refers to a person 'being more uncomfortable than most with sexuality or nudity.'. Maybe it is used in a different sense here, but the Pippi book do not take any position on sexuality or nudity (like Disney in movies, parents are absent (father later joins in)).
Prudery is not specifically about sexuality but more generally being overly concerned about "manners" and "proper behavior", something Pippi completely disregards.
Thanks. It is probably one of the 'false friends' of my language (very similiar word, but more specific meaning). Edit: well at least this dictionary agrees with me:https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/americ...
Re: Pippi and the Moomins
#10There's a similar author in Russia, Nikolai Nosov [1] He wrote most heart-warming stories for children or about children during WWII. If you read Russian, here's a great article about him: [2] --- quote, Google translate --- And the truth is that Nosov began writing stories shortly before the war (the first publication was in 1938), but the most famous, the brightest and most memorable were written in the most terrib…
> There's a similar author in Russia, Nikolai Nosov [1] It is worth noting that he alse wrote Dunno on the Moon - hardcore communist propaganda for children.
It's hardly hardcore communist propaganda. It's some of his best work. It is anticapitalist propaganda, for sure, but hardly hardcore communist propaganda, and is very prescient of many issues (well, hard to be prescient about something that was always the case).
Moreover, Dunno on the Moon uses concepts and ideas that a person in the USSR would have no to little idea about (e.g. stock markets, negative campaigning etc.), or concepts that didn't even exist at the time of writing (police batons with built-in electric discharges first appeared in the West after Nosov's death).