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Reviews

Moomin Book Four by Tove Jansson

By Sarah Boslaugh

All in all, if you have a high tolerance for whimsy you could do worse than to spend a few hours in Moominvalley. [21 July 2009]

Moomin Book Four

By Erik Hinton

Moomin owes much of its unique brilliance to its inversion of traditional argumentation. Whereas it is not unusual for an essay to recourse to fantastic thought experiment to complement its strict reasoning, Moomin builds strictly verisimilar situations out of an aesthetics of wild illogic. [7 July 2009]