Tintentod = Inkdeath (Inkworld, #3), Cornelia Funke It's another Sorcerer's Stone, as I figure it.īut don't let that get in your way. What are they called in German? Inkheart, Inkblood, Inkdeath. What are they called in English? Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath. (I can't remember the last time I _forgot to breathe_ while reading.) Okay, there's a bit of "mild-mannered Clark Kent" going on here, but it's a nice archetype and Mortimer's hero alter-ego, and what he finds he is capable of, will take your breath away. Many readers' favorite character is Staubfinger (Dustfinger), the "fire-dancer" street performer who thinks he has no courage but mine is Mortimer, the bookbinder, whose innocent heart (his symbol isn't a unicorn by accident) and empathy for the oppressed takes him into mortal danger multiple times (I can count five times from this volume without even thinking hard). (Funke's husband Rolf was dying of cancer as she wrote Tintentod, and it shows. The themes are Big: social justice for the downtrodden families with all their complications (most of the characters are on the moody/passionate side misunderstanding between close kin happens repeatedly) self-sacrifice to save others weaker than oneself the meaning death gives to life.
*There's a definite kinship to the robbers in Astrid Lindgren, too. There are marvelous robbers in the story, with all of the same conflicting agendas as the ones in Schiller*) and a host of others. Barrie to Salman Rushdie to Umberto Eco to Schiller (_Die Räuber_ of course. The range of the quotes is impressive, from (in the German version) Mark Twain to Paul Celan to C. 1 & 2, though they are probably 75% matches I wouldn't be surprised if Funke picked the English set as well - she's clearly a big Anglophile). For a medievalist like me this is a delightful Easter egg, and it's hardly the only one.) Each chapter begins with a quotation from a book (the citations chosen vary interestingly between the English and German versions of Vols.
If you Google for character names you find out that a handful of them are names of early scribes from St. (The main adult point-of-view character is a bookbinder secondary adult point-of-view characters are an author and a book collector minor characters include a handful of book illuminators.
1.but also, all the physical trappings of books. Not just the stories out of books, which play a big role, especially in Vol. It's all about getting lost in books.this time more literally than usual. The cover blurb says, "Der Verlag übernimmt keine Haftung für eventuell verloren gegangene Personen." ("The publishers assume no responsibility for readers who disappear," essentially. 3 (this one) from Germany to find out how it ended, I even ordered the audio book and put it on my iPod so I could obsess about it repeatedly. I got so crazy about this series that I not only ordered vol.
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