Tintin and the Secret of Literature

Author: Tom McCarthy
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1582434050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Arguing that the Tintin books' characters are as strong and their plots as complex as any dreamed up by the great novelists, Tom McCarthy asks a simple question: Is Tintin literature? Taking a cue from Tintin himself — who spends much of his time tracking down illicit radio signals, entering crypts, and decoding puzzles — McCarthy suggests that we too need to "tune in" and decode if we want to capture what's going on in Hergé's extraordinarily popular work. What emerges from McCarthy's examination of Tintin is a remarkable story of illegitimacy and deceit, in both Hergé's work and his own family history. McCarthy's irresistibly clever, tightly constructed book shows how the themes Tintin generates — expulsion from home, violation of the sacred, the host–guest relationship turned sour, and anxieties around questions of forgery and fakes — are the same that have fueled and troubled writers from the classical era to the present day.

Tintin and the Secret of Literature

Author: Tom McCarthy
Publisher: Granta Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781862079359
Category : Tintin (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Herge's Tintin adventures have been translated into more than 50 languages and read by tens of millions. Arguing that their characters are as strong and their plots as complex as any dreamt up by the great novelists, Tom McCarthy asks a simple question: is Tintin literature?"

Tintin and the Secret of Literature

Author: Tom McCarthy
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN:
Category : Tintin (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
A fascinating look at the influences and themes behind Herge's Tintin

Men in Space

Author: Tom McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307947653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy—acclaimed author of Remainder and C—Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast—dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut—as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to Prague and onward. Planting the themes that McCarthy’s later works develop, here McCarthy questions the meaning of all kinds of space—physical, political, emotional, and metaphysical—as reflected in the characters’ various disconnections. What emerges is a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration. With an afterword by Simon Critchley, author of The Book of Dead Philosophers

The Art of The Adventures of Tintin

Author: Weta Workshop
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9781869509309
Category : Adventures of Tintin (Motion picture)
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
An incredible visual insight into one of the most eagerly anticipated films of 2011. In autumn 2011 Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming up to launch The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. The first of two movies being produced, this film will bring to life the enormously popular books by Herg� in performance-captured, 3D form. Starring Jamie Bell (of Billy Elliot fame) as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig as the nefarious Red Rackham, this will be the film of Christmas 2011. Published alongside the groundbreaking film, this book will reveal the incredible creative design process behind it. The conceptual design and visual effects for the movie are being created by Weta, the multi Academy Award winning company behind blockbusters such as Avatar, The Lord of the Rings, District 9, King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia and many others. The designs for the book will be put together by the very same Weta artists, giving the readers a true inside story on the how the original comics were transformed into the final look on the big screen.

Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin

Author: Pierre Assouline
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195397592
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Offering a captivating portrait of a man who revolutionized the art of comics, this is the first full biography of Herge available for an English-speaking audience. --from publisher description.

Tintin and the Lake of Sharks

Author: Hergé
Publisher: Mammoth
ISBN: 9781405208222
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
The world’s most famous travelling reporter searches for the truth behind the theft of some priceless works of art. But what does the King Shark have to do with it all? Tintin and his friends are holidaying in Syldavia with Professor Calculus, who has invented an amazing new duplicating machine. But a series of strange occurrences makes Tintin suspicious. Who is the mysterious “King Shark”, and what does he want with Calculus’ machine? Is there a connection with the recent theft of famous works of art from the world’s leading museums? Tintin is determined to find out! Join the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical and political events, and thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100,000 copies every year in the UK and having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson in 2011. The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold, proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children and adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th.

The Metamorphoses of Tintin

Author: Jean-Marie Apostolidès
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804760306
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
The Metamorphoses of Tintin, a pioneering book first published in French in 1984, offers a complete analysis of Hergé's legendary hero.

Hergé, Son of Tintin

Author: Benoit Peeters
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421404540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Book Description
"Author of the critically acclaimed Tintin and the World of Hergé and the last person to interview Remi, Benoit Peeters tells the complete story behind Hergé's origins and shows how and why the nom de plume grew into a larger-than-Remi personality as Tintin's popularity exploded. Drawing on interviews and using recently uncovered primary sources for the first time, Peeters reveals Remi as a neurotic man who sought to escape the troubles of his past by allowing Hergé's identity to subsume his own. As Tintin adventured, Hergé lived out a romanticized version of life for Remi."--Jacket.

The Adventures of Tintin

Author: Hergé
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780416186000
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
Three classic graphic novels in one deluxe hardcover edition: Land of Black Gold, Destination Moon, and Explorers on the Moon. --Publisher.