widthYes Outfried Prussler Reading books, almost everyone will encounter magic: people turn into birds, dogs turn into crocodiles, white ghosts turn black, paper flowers begin to smell, and raspberry syrup and coarse gin are poured out of the jar. If you are lucky and meet a friendly magician, you will learn how to go from the cow face to the strongest man in all directions, and then to the “strong Vanya”-lying on the stove for seven years, eating sunflower seeds, watching Others work. On the other hand, if you are unlucky, you will feel like another cow face, young Krabat. The seemingly harmless spell suddenly became a matter of life and death.
If this narrative succeeds, such as the Prussian masterpiece “Krabat”, for which the author has won numerous awards, this work has been filmed twice and has long become school reading materials, then naturally the work will appear. The hard road to the completion of the book, the many questions that plagued the author, he was not sure about his career, especially this novel, until the end-these can not be read from “Krabat”.
On October 16, 1958, Otfried Preußler wrote to Lotte Weitbrecht, head of Thienemann publishing house, in which his children’s book “Der kleine Wassermann” has been published since 1956. Appeared. In a letter to Lot Wittbrecht again on October 8, 1959, Prussler wrote: “You remember the magician legend’s plan. I now decide to pick one Legends with overlapping themes, the legend of Krabat, the Wender magician from Lusatia, this is a very colorful legend, and most importantly, it is also a little-known “moral impeccable” material” by the way Let me just say that he hopes to submit a manuscript in January 1960, the length of which will be the same as the length of his book “Bei uns in Schilda” published in 1958, which is intended to be read by the same readers (“from 10 to 70 “).
The letter from the author, who was almost 36 years old at the time, revealed the intention of a project at the beginning. He wanted to complete it so quickly, but after 12 years, it seemed to be in serious crisis again and again due to several interruptions and new beginnings. In addition, “Krabat” published in the summer of 1971 is fundamentally different in all respects from the original plan and the first fragment preserved, so it can be said to be a brand new book, even if it is based on the same wonderful original . When Presler’s letter mentions Krabat’s “hungry for adventure”, the letter may refer to the manuscript of the “adventure book”. If you want to ask the same question for readers who repeat the “Schilda” material repeatedly, Then this concept has a completely different accent setting from the previous version of “Krabat”. Therefore, the creation story of this great youth novel that transcends temptation, power, powerlessness, and fear of death is also a liberating story: in a process that took many years, the author divorced the source and gave traditional materials his own version. Essentially related to his life experience.
