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by Frederic Tuten (Author) "In France everyone knows who Tintin is; in America he may require an introduction ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd (7 Sep 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0285638556
  • ISBN-13: 978-0285638556
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 180,674 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Frederic Tuten grabs Tintin by his quiff, yanks him out of his celibacy, life and innocence and drops him into sex, death, and experience… Wildly inventive… Tintin in the New World is a serious novel hiding behind a comic book conceit. --The Times

Tuten s novel offers the reader a pleasure no less keen than that of Herge s comic albums, although of an entirely different genre. It is a pleasure of the mind, not easily come to, but absolutely worth it once you are there: the pleasure, I suppose, of coming to a new world. --The Believer

This strange and memorable novel… its strength lies in its extraordinary use of language, which combines fastidious exactness with a bizarre yet persuasive dreamlike quality. --Jonathan Coe, London Review of Books


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Tintin, one of the world s favourite characters, has travelled to Yucatan and Tibet, the South Sea and even to the moon. But he has never journeyed into his own mind. Tintin, the boy detective, is trapped in the body and psyche of a teenager, while he fights evil his own demons sleep. Then he is called to Machu Pinchu, accompanied by Captain Haddock and Snowy, where he meets the woman he will fall in love with. Instantly recognisable as Herge s creation, Frederic Tuten makes Tintin his own. In the new world of his own self-awareness Tintin faces his most incredible adventure yet; for the first time Tintin realises that he has the power to kill, the ability to hate and that he has a soul capable of becoming one with all living things.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Pretentious, but even worse, boring!, 5 April 2003
By A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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One of the more pretentious novels I've read in quite a while, this postmodern pastiche of German writer Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain and the popular comic character Tintin is likely to leave fans of both exceedingly disappointed, and general readers bored to death. Basically, Tuten (who was a friend of Tintin's creator, Hergé) started with the notion that the man-boy reporter remained essentially emotionally immature and shallow over the course of his twenty or so adventures. So, he places Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock in Macchu Picchu with a number of characters from The Magic Mountain and has them talk at each other endlessly. The book is subtitled "A Romance", presumably because in it, Tintin falls in love for the first time. There's also an overarching thread where Tintin is apparently supposed to play some role as prophet. The problem is that Tuten is attempting to play with the idea of Tintin as a "real" man, with anger, lust, disillusionment, etc. but the entire book is absolutely stagey, talky, and unreal. Most of it reads like a bad play, with endless monologues in language not heard in at least half a century. It's an interesting idea transformed into a very dull book-an experiment that wouldn't have merited a second look from any editor had it not been for the Tintin affiliation.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A wildly inventive novel, 26 Mar 1999
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This is Tintin's final adventure. Our clean-cut hero is languishing at Marlinspike with little to do when he receives a mysterious letter beckoning him to visit the ancient Inca ruins of Machu Pichu in Peru. He's off like a shot, dragging the old sea captain Haddock and the faithful Snowy along as usual. But this is not your usual story of evil criminals, dastardly plots and gun battles where no one dies. Tintin is truly on a trip to the New World of sex, death and feeling.

I found Frederic Tuten's new novel to be a beautiful, mesmerising philosophical work. Even the parts I didn't understand read so well that you cannot help but enjoy the amazing use of language. Highly recommended and I am sure worthy of a second reading.

Adrian Glover

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5.0 out of 5 stars Rich and enjoyable language, 29 Nov 2000
By Paul (London) - See all my reviews
I first noticed this book by it's very cool cover by Roy Lichtenstein. Generally you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but here you would be wrong. The language, admittedly, is a bit stilted and anachronistic in the early 21st century but I do not think that poses a barrier to enjoyment. In fact as my New years resolution was to read only classics (in order to educate myself a bit) I would say that this book was one of the best of the year (Voltaire, Homer, Ginny Woolfe eat your hearts out). I particularly liked the way the whole death and decay of Tintin's wife, Marlinspike and Captain Haddock was dealt with. In fact I hated Tintin's child for wanting to destroy it all as I had read the comic books as a child and was having vivid pictures playing in my mind whilst I read. I would recommend this book on many different levels (dahling), but above all for the beautiful prose type language.
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Starts off well - Tintin's journey into Manhood via an enchanting lady and some philosophical arguements with and between a very sparce cast. Read more
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