Confessions of a displaced hedgehog

A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced.

Wednesday, 1 January 2020

Re-reading The Glass Bead Game

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The last book I read in 2019 (or in the 2010s if you insist) was Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game , one of the very, very few b...

Sunday, 29 December 2019

My 2010s

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Currently, both media and individuals are summarising not only the past year, but the past decade. For me, the 2010s more or less coincided...

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Thursday, 26 December 2019

Final destination

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Some friends have had a chance to see snippets of my new life on Facebook, but I should probably offer a brief summary, now that I hav...

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Monday, 18 November 2019

My British children's literature, part 4

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Read part 1 , 2 and 3 of this story. Yet another unlikely British author, significantly more famous in Russia than in his h...

Saturday, 16 November 2019

My British children's literature, part 3

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Read part 1 and part 2 of this story. While the reason Leila Berg was acceptable in the Soviet Union seems clear, it is less o...

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Friday, 15 November 2019

My British children's literature, part 2

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Read the first post in this series. Another favourite was of a totally different kind: The Adventures of Chunky , by Leila Berg, wh...

Thursday, 14 November 2019

My British children's literature

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It so happened that I never gave the talk that was supposed to be my valedictory appearance. But I did finish it, and I think it may be o...

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