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The ListenerTove JanssonTranslated from the Swedish byThomas Teal
To my brother, Per Olov
Tove Jansson’s artwork for the original Swedish publication of Lyssnerskan (The Listener), Bonniers, 1971

Contents
Title Page
Dedication
 
The Listener
Unloading Sand
The Birthday Party
The Sleeping Man
Black-White
Letters to an Idol
A Love Story
The Other
In Spring
The Silent Room
The Storm
Grey Duchesse
Proposal for a Preface
The Wolf
The Rain
Blasting
Lucio’s Friends
The Squirrel
 
Also by Tove Jansson
Copyright
The ListenerAUNT GERDA WAS FIFTY-FIVE when it began, and the first sign of change was in her letters. They grew impersonal.
She was a quiet, well-to-do woman of ordinary appearance. Nothing about her was provocative, disturbing, or exaggerated. But she was a good letter writer. Not brilliant, of course, not amusing, but in her letters Aunt Gerda took up and examined every detail communicated to her without ever subjecting her correspondents to meddlesome advice. They had grown accustomed to the fact that she replied at once, not anxiously but with care and serious interest. Her letters often ended with a wish for a productive autumn or a pleasant spring, and this generous time limit seemed to give them full freedom to take their time with their next letter.Reading one of Aunt Gerda’s letters was exciting, like reliving one’s own experiences, only this time dramatised and clarified on a wider stage, with a Greek chorus observing and underlining the action. And with the certain assurance that she would never reveal the confidences with which she was so often rewarded.
Now, and for some time past, Aunt Gerda waited weeks and months with her replies, and when she finally did write, her letters were marred by unworthy excuses, her handwriting had grown large and loose, and she wrote on only side of the paper. And her masterfully detailed sympathy had lost its warmth.When a person loses what might be called her essence – the expression of her most beautiful quality – it sometimes happens that the alteration widens and deepens and with frightening speed overwhelms her entire personality. This is what happened to Aunt Gerda. Soon she was dropping names, forgetting birthdays, faces, promises. She began coming late – the woman who always used to sit and wait on the steps and still be the first to arrive. Her tardy presents were too expensive, too big, too impersonal, and accompanied by embarrassing excuses. No l ............

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