Amy's Eyes

Amy 's Eyes, published in 1985 by Harper & Row, New York, is the most famous in Germany work of Richard Kennedy; it was established in 1987 under the title The Fantastic Journey of Annis eyes, the rag dolls and the captain of Ueberreuter Verlag, Austria, published.

Content

In his speech at the award ceremony of the Pied Piper Literature Prize of the city of Hameln 1988 summarizes Prof. Dr. Dieter Petzold, Department of English and American Studies at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, the contents of the book are as follows:

"(...) In an unspecified past in which there are horses, stagecoaches and sailing ships, the heroine Anni. Survived by her widowed father will contend with an orphanage exposed, equipped with a loaf of bread and a home-made doll in shape of a captain. the first ten years of life Annis in the orphanage are under the motto " Take what you can get, defend yourself your skin, and the devil takes the hindmost ." through an accidental needle stick in the head awakens Anni their beloved captain doll suddenly to life. (...) The captain brought to life grows quickly to manhood, flees the orphanage and goes, its intended use, by sea, not without promising, his " sister " Anni to write and they later to get. Yet because his letters are intercepted by an evil, bitter supervisor, Anni grieves so much so that they in turn becomes the dummy. as she leads a kind of sleeping Beauty, but not in unconscious sleep, but as a passive participant in the events, become the master of the new protagonists of the story. This therefore changes its character: it follows an extended fantastic adventure ride, a treasure hunt on a sailing ship that is manned by coming to life stuffed animals and is pursued by bloodthirsty pirates ( ... ) "( documentation for the award ceremony, courtesy of the Cultural Office. the city of Hameln )

Criticism

In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the book received enthusiastic reviews.

Maria Frise wrote on November 7, 1987 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among other things: "(...) 370 pages bulging took of stories enggeknüpftes and much entangled yarn Read, people, read In America, not only the children's book experts were clairaudient The literary criticism.! . Richard Kennedy seriously and praised him enthusiastically, she compared " fantastic Voyage " with " Tristram Shandy " and the " Neverending Story ". comparisons of this kind are never perfect. " fantastic Voyage " is at least much funnier, much more absurd and more exciting than the illustrious examples. explicitly to praise is the translation of Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt (...). "

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• Children 's and Youth Literature