Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Der Marsianer: Ein Roman
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love Victorian storytelling, friendship woven with the supernatural, and ideas that sit between science and faith. Art, music, love and reincarnation give Barty's life its otherworldly pull.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
The Martian is a novel by George du Maurier, the last he wrote. It appeared in 1897, the year after his death, and it was left to readers as a kind of farewell. Du Maurier was an artist and a cartoonist before he turned to fiction, and the book carries a painter's eye for faces, rooms and the streets of Paris and London. It is told by a friend, a writer, who sets down the life of a remarkable man named Barty Josselin.
Barty is gifted beyond the ordinary. He is quick, charming and strong, and he has a talent that seems to come from somewhere else. The book asks where such gifts come from, and it answers with an odd and tender idea: that a being from another world, called Martia, speaks and acts through him. Along the way you get school days, friendship, art, music, love and a long argument about whether we live more than once. Let us start with the boy himself and the world that made him.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A friend sets out to tell Barty's lifeFree
- 2A gifted boy grows up between two countries
- 3A voice from Mars enters the story
- 4Love, art and friendship shape Barty's days
- 5Reincarnation asks if we live more than once
- 6A gentle, old fashioned way of telling
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A friend sets out to tell Barty's life
The story begins with the man who tells it. He is a writer and an old friend of Barty Josselin, and he says plainly that he wants to give a true account of a life he watched from close by. This gives the book the feel of a memoir, written with affection and a little awe. The teller is not the hero. He stands beside the hero, and he is the one who has to make sense of what he saw.
That choice matters. A friend can describe Barty from outside, with all the warmth of long years, and can admit when he does not understand. He cannot see into Barty's mind, so he must rely on what Barty said, wrote and did. When strange things happen, the reader meets them through an honest but puzzled witness.
The teller also sets the tone of the whole book. He is gentle, humorous and rather old fashioned, and he loves the places of his youth. Du Maurier was a man who drew for Punch and wrote about Paris with deep fondness, and that fondness shows in the way the friend recalls early days. Memory is a key tool here. The narrator is trying to hold on to a person and a time that are slipping away.
For you as a listener, this opening sets a promise. You are about to hear about a man who was unlike others, told by someone who loved him. The first thing to learn is what made Barty so unusual, and that begins in his childhood.
That’s 1 of 6 key points.
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Questions about Der Marsianer: Ein Roman
What is The Martian by George du Maurier about?
It tells the life of Barty Josselin, a gifted man, through the eyes of a close friend. The book links him to Martia, a being from Mars, and weaves in love, art and the idea of reincarnation.
Is The Martian by George du Maurier the same as the Andy Weir novel?
No. Du Maurier's book was published in 1897 and is a Victorian tale of friendship, love and the supernatural. Andy Weir's novel of the same name is a modern science story about survival on Mars.
When was The Martian by du Maurier written and published?
It was Du Maurier's last novel and appeared in 1897, after his death in 1896. It belongs to the late Victorian age, when spiritualism and the idea of life on Mars both fascinated the public.
Who is Martia in The Martian?
Martia is a being from Mars who is linked with the hero, Barty Josselin, and speaks through him. She is shown as gentle and wise, and she gives the book its supernatural thread.
Is The Martian hard to read?
The prose is warm and chatty, in the manner of a Victorian storyteller. Readers will find it easy to follow.