Plutonia (novel)

Plutonien (Russian Плутония ) is a novel by the Russian writer Vladimir Afanassjevitch Obruchev from the year 1924.

Content

Nikolai Innokentjewitsch Truchanow organized an expedition with the supposed goal of previously unknown islands or mainland north of the Chukchi Peninsula and to see Alaska. Since Truchanow itself due to a missing leg can not take part in the expedition to land, he asks the geology professor Pyotr Ivanovich Kaschtanow, zoologists Semen Semenovich Papotschkin, the meteorologist Ivan Andreyevich Borovoi and the botanist and physician Mikhail Ignatjewisch Gromeko to participate in the expedition.

With the expedition ship Polar Star, the crew makes on May 4, 1914 on the way to the hitherto unexplored area in which the new country is suspected. Move the handler Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin and 30 dogs and happens to be the mining engineer Jawow Makschejew be carried on board the Polarstern. They are also part of the land expedition.

After the new land was discovered and baptized in the name of Fridtjof Nansen Land, the land of six well-equipped expedition, supported begins by the Huskies, in the north. After some time, found unexplained phenomena. The compass refuses to work, the temperature rises and the air pressure changes do not correspond to the slope. Time, the air pressure increases so much that it corresponds to a depth of about 9000 meters below sea level. Even a new permanent standing at the zenith sun emerges.

Only by a letter, which has given them the organizer Truchanow and they may only open in a hopeless situation, they learn that they have passed an entrance into the interior of the earth and located at the inside of the earth's surface.

After the end of the snow cover is reached and the first prehistoric animals have been discovered, the group separates. Borovoi and Igolkin remain with the winter gear and the dogs, while the other four open, the interior of the earth, which they dubbed Plutonien to explore. Inside they come across primeval flora and fauna, in which it is valid to pass a variety adventure.

Scientific reference

Plutonien accesses the theory of the hollow ground. The new "sun" is still red-hot center of the earth. A real horizon there is not only the limitation of view of preventing a look at the opposite side. In describing the flora and fauna Obruchev takes the existing in his time, knowledge about the Earth's history to help. During the expedition, the characters pass through the various ages in reverse order. In this case, no animals and plants come together from different eras.

As the author of a number of requests have been made for a new expedition to Plutonien, Obruchev explained in the afterword that the theory of the hollow earth was disproved long ago. He had used it only as a literary device, in order to deepen the interest of the youth of Geology and Earth's history.

Expenditure

The book was published in 1953, translated by Herbert Stresemann and with illustrations by Gerhard Goßmann new life in publishing, Berlin, series tells Exciting, Volume 4 It went through several editions and was published in 1962 as a takeover in publishing for Foreign Literature, Moscow. In 1988 it came in a new translation of Bulgakowa and Dietmar Hochmuth out ( again as Volume 4 of the series tells exciting ). In the new edition of 2005 ( ISBN 3-355-01711-6 ) they resorted back to the old translation and the illustrations of the first edition.

1980/81 appeared Plutonien as so-called picture story (today we would call it more of a comic ) in the journal The drum, drawn by Heinz -Helge Schulze. This version was released in 2007 in the series Classics of GDR history in the Dresden picture lumberyard Verlag ( Issue 7, ISBN 978-3-939509-06-6 ) with a new title image by Hagen Flemming and editorial contributions.

Plutonien reached a wide audience in the GDR and is today still offered in Ostalgieläden.

  • Literary work
  • Romance
  • Literature ( Russian)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Children 's and Youth Literature
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