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Walter Moers's Zamonia novels are works of fantasy literature presented as literary fragments of the world of Zamonia. [15] In the course of the publications, Moers's authorship was fictitiously reduced further and further, from author and helper (The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear) to editor and illustrator (Ensel and Krete, The City of Dreaming Books) to second-tier editor (The Alchemaster's ...
The City of Dreaming Books (original title: Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher) is the fourth novel in the Zamonia series written and illustrated by German author Walter Moers, but the third to be translated into English by John Brownjohn. The German version was released in Autumn 2004, and the English version followed in Autumn 2007. [1]
The book ends with the death of the antagonist and thus the rescue of the heroine. In his previous novels, Moers describes such a happy ending as atypical for Zamonian literature. [citation needed] In Princess Insomnia, Walter Moers once again works heavily with different types of wordplay, such as neologisms and anagrams.
The events of this novel take place on the fictional continent of Zamonia, which is also featured in Moers' previous novel The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear. While Rumo is not a prequel to Bluebear, the two do have many parallel events and returning characters such as Volzotan Smyke, Professor Nightingale, and Fredda the Alpine Imp. There is ...
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Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the plastic flying discs that eventually became known as the Frisbee, died at his Utah home on Tuesday. He was 90 and is survived by three children.
The 13 1 ⁄ 2 Lives of Captain Bluebear follows the adventures of the character Bluebear in the first half of his 27 lives. The novel intersperses Bluebear's narrative with excerpts from The Encyclopedia of Marvels, Life Forms and Other Phenomena of Zamonia and its Environs by Professor Abdullah Nightingale, who bacterially transmits it into Bluebear's brain.