May 35
on May 35 ( DER 35. May oder Konrad reitet in die Südsee ) is a Romance for youth German of Erich Kästner published in 1931.
Summary
The uncle Ringelhut spends all his Thursdays with his Konrad nephew. However, this Thursday fell one May 35, dates which forecasts astonishing adventures inevitably. Whereas they go in the street, a horse in roller skates approaches them. Konrad is inattentive because it must return a drafting on the South Seas. Whereas Konrad is in his/her uncle, the horse sounds and they make fuller knowledge. To help them, Negro Caballo indicates a passage to them towards the South Seas, which pass by the bottom the cupboard of the uncle.The three travellers cross initially the Pays of Feast, where the things which one imagines shape. Konrad thus makes reduce his/her uncle. On their way, they reach the Castle of the deep past where they meet Charlemagne, Napoleon, Jules César. Wallenstein and Hannibal plays tin soldiers. They arrive then in the reversed World where the children educate the parents. A subway station leads them to Electropolis, an automated city. They finally arrive to the Indian Ocean and the line of the equator. They meet the princess Métis there Chicorey, of which skin with the appearance of a checkerwork.
The novel ends in the drafting of Konrad, summary of all these adventures.
Extracts
- “do you thus Believe that it is necessary to make the acrobat to reach the country of Feast? Its inhabitants have the reputation to be laziest of the ground, and they surely do not enter on their premises by climbing! ”
-
“There were on the tree trunk a vending machine provided with pognées and inscriptions. One could read there:
- " To draw the left handle twice: 1 compote portion. "
- " To draw the right handle once: 1 tart with plums with the whipped cream. " ”
Notes & Sources
| Random links: | François Nicolas Benoit Haxo | Academy of the Lynxes | Jean Boizeau | Mogul (locomotive) | Gloucestershire County Cricket Club | Sentō_Yōsei_Yukikaze |