The Adventures of Tintin The Calculus Affair(Adventures of Tintin)|报价￥65.70|图书,进口原版,Others 其他,Herge

品牌：Herge

基本信息

·出版社：Little Brown and Company

·页码：62 页码

·出版日：1976年

·ISBN：9780316358477

·条码：9780316358477

·版次：Paperback

·装帧：平装

·开本：16 16

·丛书名：Adventures of Tintin

内容简介

Book Description

The Adventures of Tintin

The Calculus Affair

The Calculus Affair(French:L'Affaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth ofThe Adventures of Tintin,a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero.

Some, such as Benoit Peeters, in his bookTintin and the World of Hergéhave labelled this as the greatest of the series. The Tintin website dubsThe Calculus Affairas the most "detective-like" of the whole series.

Synopsis

The story is set in the 1950s, several months after Tintin and his friends have returned from the Moon. Tintin and Captain Haddock are on a stroll in the countryside around Marlinspike, but are suddenly caught out by an approaching thunderstorm and rush back to the manor.

Events take a mysterious turn during the storm. Inside Marlinspike, several items of glass within the house mysteriously break for no apparent reason. Then, Jolyon Wagg, an annoyingly gregarious and impolite insurance salesman, turns up uninvited to seek shelter. He claims that all the windows of his car have somehow blown to bits.

Once the storm passes, Wagg leaves, but gunshots are heard from outside, and Wagg is found hiding in the bushes. Another man is also found injured but then disappears. In the midst of the mystery, Professor Calculus, returns to the house that night with bullet holes in his hat. Calculus, somewhat apathetic to the whole series of events, leaves the following day to attend a conference in Geneva.

When he is gone, things grow calmer. Tintin suspects that the strange events may have been connected with Calculus, and suggests to Haddock that they have a look inside his laboratory. They find a strange sonic device and are surprised by an eastern European wearing a trenchcoat and a mask. The intruder escapes after punching Haddock. However, Snowy bites off the trenchcoat's pocket, and two items fall out: a key and a box of cigarettes with the name of the Hotel Cornavin (where Calculus is staying in Geneva) scrawled onto it. Concerned that Calculus is in danger, Tintin and Haddock decide to follow him to Switzerland…….

Book Dimension

length: (cm)29.4 width:(cm)21.9

Illustrations：

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Remarks from Wikipedia

The political background ofThe Calculus Affairis the Cold War and the measures that both sides would go to in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

The book in Professor Topolino's house, German Research in World War II by Leslie E. Simon, really existed and was published in 1947. Simon was a retired Major General in the U.S. Army. This explains why the red-and-white rocket on the dust-jacket of the book is remarkably similar to the Moon Rocket fromDestination MoonandExplorers on the Moon;that design was based on the German V-2 Rocket.

The physical appearance of Colonel Sponsz is based on Herge's brother, Paul Remi, a career soldier. Paul had been the original inspiration for Tintin himself back in 1929. Dubbed "Major Tintin", he took on a new appearance in an attempt to get away from the image. This new look was to serve as the model for Sponsz, who would reappear inTintin and the Picaros.

It seems possible that the research interests of Professor Calculus as portrayed inThe Calculus Affair,were based upon those of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich who in his later life became convinced of the existence of a form of energy which he called "orgone." Among the devices constructed by Reich to capture or manipulate "orgone" was the Cloudbuster which he claimed could be used to induce rain by forcing clouds to form and disperse - a device similar to that portrayed within 'The Calculus Affair' intended to destroy buildings by using focused rays of energy. Albert Einstein engaged in some correspondence with Reich which was later published asThe Einstein Affair- a probable inspiration for the title of 'The Calculus Affair'.

The cover of the album has the main illustration surrounded by a shattered piece of glass.

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