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Hergé, one of the most famous Belgians in the world, was a comics writer and artist. The internationally successful Adventures of Tintin are his most well-known and beloved works. They have been translated into 38 different languages and have inspired such legends as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. He wrote and illustrated for The Adventures of Tintin until his death in 1983.
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Format:Hardcover
The value of "Tintin au Pays des Soviets" ("Tintin in the Land of the Soviets") is as much historical as it is literary since this is the first of Les Aventures de Tintin created by Hergé. The date is January 10, 1929 and in Brussels the intrepid young reporter for "Le Petit Vingtième" Tintin and his dog Milou board a train for Moscow. There Tintin spends his time denouncing the methods of the Communist Party and then avoiding attempts by the Soviet secret police to silence him for his views. By the time Tintin makes it back home word of his exploits has arrived ahead of him and he is greeted as a hero.
Today "Tintin au Pays des Soviets" constitutes something of a false start for Hergé's series. The seven volume collection of the Three-in-One series of "The Adventures of Tintin," which is probably the most common way for today's readers to get a hold of the Tintin stories, begins with the third adventures, "Tintin Au America." Both this story and "Tintin Au Congo" are left out of the "official" canon, the former because of the suspect ideology and the latter because of the implicit racism. What emerges in the other eighteen Tintin tales is more pure storytelling that takes place in a created world that bears only an allegorical relationship to the real world. Besides, Tintin does not even have his trademark tuft of hair at this point.
Consequently, Tintin fans who track down the first couple of adventures will need to take both tales with a grain of salt. Whereas the other stories tend to stand on their own, the first two are clearly dated.
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This story is entirely in black and white with simple outline drawings. Like the early episodes of the Simpsons, characters are recognisable but the style is still forming and growing. Tintin has a much rounder head and there is less definition in the character's features. However, the simplistic method and the monochrome texture means you don't stop to admire the view and are whisked along by the story.
It was originally a newspaper comic strip so the regular cliff-hangers mean that Tintin is getting shot at, blown-up, or in car crashes every other page. Whilst this gets a bit fatiguing after a while it means the story moves along at a fair old pace. You won't get bored and can finish the book very quickly.
Herge wrote this in 1929 meaning the politics are just as black and white as the pictures. The Soviets are evil. Like the Nazis in Indiana Jones they have no redeeming features. This conjures the feel of an old Saturday Morning serial like Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers. Much of the humour wouldn't look out of place in a Charlie Chaplin movie either. This is definitely a fascinating snapshot of a bygone era and quite an accomplishment for a 22 year old amateur with no formal art training. Whilst the English translation can sometimes get a bit patchy it is still an interesting read.
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It was originally a newspaper comic strip so the regular cliff-hangers mean that Tintin is getting shot at, blown-up, or in car crashes every other page. Whilst this gets a bit fatiguing after a while it means the story moves along at a fair old pace. You won't get bored and can finish the book very quickly.
Herge wrote this in 1929 meaning the politics are just as black and white as the pictures. The Soviets are evil. Like the Nazis in Indiana Jones they have no redeeming features. This conjures the feel of an old Saturday Morning serial like Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers. Much of the humour wouldn't look out of place in a Charlie Chaplin movie either. This is definitely a fascinating snapshot of a bygone era and quite an accomplishment for a 22 year old amateur with no formal art training. Whilst the English translation can sometimes get a bit patchy it is still an interesting read.
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is essential for anyone who likes Tintin. Its always interesting to see how a character begins and this is no exception, including how Tintin got his hairstyle. Its also different to see the pages in black and white only, while Snowy looks a little bit different in Land of the Soviets, compared to future stories.
While this is almost double the price of other Tintin books, it is worth it!
22 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
The book is valuable for two reasons, firstly it is interesting to compare how TinTin developed over the years, and secoundly for anyone with an interest in Soviet history, how the orginal stories in Le Soir (belgium newspaper)in the 1930's and the book, were and still are, portrayed by some as mere anti communist propoganda.
It is chilling that despite millions of people being murdered in Gulags or shot out of hand, that the book which falls short of showing the full horrors of lenin and Stalin regimes are still derided in this way.
Anyway once again a good book, but for some the biggest critism is that boy dectective might have got too close to the real world in his first outing.
It is chilling that despite millions of people being murdered in Gulags or shot out of hand, that the book which falls short of showing the full horrors of lenin and Stalin regimes are still derided in this way.
Anyway once again a good book, but for some the biggest critism is that boy dectective might have got too close to the real world in his first outing.
By Reverte77
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To begin with, I love Tin Tin. I'm a big fan of him. His stories are engraved in my mind, since I was very young. Having read all his adventures several times, I must say that "Soviets" is very different from his other adventures as though it has been written by another author! It is hard to believe that it came from the same man!
Definitely, one of the author's lesser works.
Definitely, one of the author's lesser works.
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The oldest of the Tintin adventure to be published in full 'book' form (originally referred to as 'albums'), In The Land Of The Soviets remains even more anomalous than In the Congo, for several reasons. First of all it was never deemed worthy of a redraw, which might've truncated it to the normal length and format all the other Tintin albums share (62 colour pages). At 141 black and white pages, it remains an oddity, even in purely technical terms.
But as a story, and as a work of art, it also differs markedly. Rather than hearing Hergé's voice, which only really comes through in the gentler humour (in itself mostly rather lame on this occasion, and also often anything but gentle: along with In The Congo, In The Land Of The Soviets finds Tintin at his most brutal), we are served up an indigestible dose of heavy handed anti-Communist propaganda: he's certainly the 'company man' at this point, doing the bidding of his Catholic employers. After this story, only his adventure in the Congo makes explicit reference to the paper - Le Petit Vingtieme - for whom Tintin is allegedly a reporter. In fact In The Land Of The Soviets is also one of the very few Tintin adventures in which we ever see him writing up a report to send back to the paper.
In addition to all of this, Hergé's craft is very much in its infancy, which makes In The Land Of The Soviets an interesting rather than particularly satisfying document. The drawing, dialogue, and storytelling are all, by Hergé's own later standards, really very poor.... Read more ›
But as a story, and as a work of art, it also differs markedly. Rather than hearing Hergé's voice, which only really comes through in the gentler humour (in itself mostly rather lame on this occasion, and also often anything but gentle: along with In The Congo, In The Land Of The Soviets finds Tintin at his most brutal), we are served up an indigestible dose of heavy handed anti-Communist propaganda: he's certainly the 'company man' at this point, doing the bidding of his Catholic employers. After this story, only his adventure in the Congo makes explicit reference to the paper - Le Petit Vingtieme - for whom Tintin is allegedly a reporter. In fact In The Land Of The Soviets is also one of the very few Tintin adventures in which we ever see him writing up a report to send back to the paper.
In addition to all of this, Hergé's craft is very much in its infancy, which makes In The Land Of The Soviets an interesting rather than particularly satisfying document. The drawing, dialogue, and storytelling are all, by Hergé's own later standards, really very poor.... Read more ›
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Black & White
I have seen this book in Waterstones and it is in Black and White I don't understand how they say it is in full colour in the description !!
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irritating, crude political cartoon
This has the feel of an experimental 'pilot' episode for a long running series. The drawings are crude and uncoloured and the cartoon-death-avoidance humour may have worked in an... Read more
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Yes, this rather rudimentary comic-strip hardback may be lavishly presented but is far from being the best Tintin book in the series. Read more
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