The Borrible Trilogy

Borribles are the central figures of a youth book series by British author Michael de Larrabeiti. It is from home torn children who lead a life in secret, away from the rules and laws of the adult world and modern society. Eventually, they stop growing, they remain external from then on in the form of twelve year olds. Your ears take on a pointed shape, secure identification mark of a Borribles. Your life, they deny with theft and shrink not from violence back. Become a Borrible clipped the ears, he grows into a normal adult and forget the life he has led away from the society.

Larrabeitis trilogy is considered as a deviation from the current literature because it addresses violence and loss of values ​​, without glossing over this. The narrative language of the novels comes from the streets of London, the dialogues are bluntly and crossed by Goss jargon. These circumstances led to a skeptical dealing with the works of the critics, who eventually helped that they were first recognized only to insiders. Also striking is the strong anti- authoritarian embossing of the novels: The adult world is represented here as obsessive and boring, it is thus in sharp contrast to the free and exciting Borriblewelt. Just as structuration and organization of the physical orientation of modern society is mocked and caricatured - although the Borribles are possessions, they lead a full life while the haves, the hoard material wealth, inevitably to the villains of the stories are. Friendship, loyalty and cohesion are emphasized as fundamental moral values ​​that will protect a Borrible at any price. Although the novels were published as books for young people they treat very serious topics and lead an ideological discourse about the value of things.

Borrible novels

  • On the big Rumble hunting ( orig: The Borribles ) 1976
  • In the labyrinth of the helix ( orig: The Borribles go for broke ) 1981
  • The dragnet ( orig: Across the Dark Metropolis ) 1986
  • The Borribles ( trilogy in one volume ) 2007, ISBN 978-3-608-93787-9
  • Literature ( 20th century)
Morality
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