The Solitaire Mystery
The Solitaire Mystery (ISBN 3-446-17710-8, original title: Kabalmysteriet, ISBN 82-03-24447-5 ) is a philosophical novel by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder in 1990 The German translation was published in 1995 by Gabriele Haefs Like. . in his later written bestselling success Jostein Gaarder Sophie's World is trying to convey philosophical questions youth justice through an exciting story.
Content
Main characters of the story are the 12- year-old Hans -Thomas and his father; both set out to search for Hans -Thomas ' mother, the two had left some time ago. Now the father is a philosopher and shortens the boy's journey through various philosophical considerations. Somewhat more complex the story is the fact that the boy comes across a book whose content is told as a story in history. This book is about the shipwrecked baker Frode, who is stranded on an island and has a deck of cards. The lone baker now making the figures to its virtual counterparts to giving them one day shown on the maps in person on the island met ( on the title of the book refers ). The figures do not seem to realize that they are actually just sprung from the imagination of the baker, but contains the card game and a joker who has this knowledge and now, a clear allusion to Plato and his allegory of the cave, trying to bring close the other this fact. The baker takes as the creator of the characters practically the role of God one, which is problematic, as the Joker, as Nietzsche calls from his Mitfiguren, they have killed God and live independently.
The story within the story is told from the perspective of the reading Hans- Thomas, who comes here to the corresponding findings about human existence and with his father ( which he, however, the existence of the book is silent at first) discussed above. Meanwhile, the journey of the two, which began in Norway goes further, actually you will find information about whereabouts of the mother, who gets by as a model in Greece, home of the philosophy. Before the family comes together again at the end, the boy told his father of the content of the book, without telling him that there is this book. He was labeled as very imaginative and shortly thereafter the book and the boy disappears is itself not sure if it was actually real.
German translation
The German translation by Gabriele Haefs is complicated by the Norwegian original part plays in Germany and in Switzerland. The village, where the baker lives was, for example, simply by Jostein Gaarder called in the original " village" - for the German reader, this may be confusing.
Interesting work from a German perspective, individual stories of the father over his mother and her life was occupied by German soldiers Norway. His mother became involved with a German soldier, from the relationship he emerged. He had been ashamed to be a "German Kid" Long years.
Symbolism of Purple Lemonade
The purple lemonade is characterized in that it combines all the flavors that we perceive people in their essence. It is obtained from the juice of the purple rose and then boiled. This recipe invented Frode during his 52 -year-old island time. The purple lemonade can be interpreted as a symbol of a transcendent reality, which holds all the experiences that we can do on earth in itself. Parallels to the Akashic Records, where all experiences are stored, the people have ever done, are also noted.
Awards
1995 Youth Book of the Month March, the German Academy for Children 's and Youth Literature