The creator of Moomins, who died in 2001, continues to charm us with her writings that La Peuplade has undertaken to publish for several years – some for the first time in French.
This collection of short stories takes us on little journeys alongside singular characters who let themselves be carried away by life, here and there.
A Japanese teenager who dreams of meeting the author to whom she writes and whose work she has read in full. A night trip in the center of Helsinki in the company of three artists. A man who enjoys a dizzying sensation of freedom by boarding a boat, without the slightest idea of his landing point. Another who his grandson manages to convince to take the plane and who finds himself in an absurd situation. An 11-year-old child who spends the summer with a family, near the sea, and who manages to alienate his hosts.
And proof, if any were needed, that the writer’s texts have not aged a bit, her reflections on “human concerns” could have been written today, as they remain current: “The people are frantically busy with mundane activities while the irreparable takes its irremediable course, duty and guilt eat away at their limits and everything is vaguely labeled under the term anxiety, an affliction that we rarely dare to define if we do at all. have time to do it. »
News that is like little breaths of fresh air, punctuated with notes of humor, to be enjoyed one at a time.
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The People
280 pages