On the Rio de la Plata
The Rio de la Plata , the first of two contiguous is South America - novels (the second is in the Cordilleras ), the Karl May in the years 1888 bis 1890 wrote. Originally both parts were published from 1889 to 1891 under the title El Sendador in the magazine Deutscher Hausschatz in word and picture , in April 1894 the first book edition appeared. The differences between magazine and book versions are only minor.
In 1910 an illustrated edition with pictures by Claus Bergen appeared .
content
The volume consists of 5 chapters:
- First Chapter: In Montevideo
- Chapter Two : With the Bola Men
- Third Chapter: Brother Jaguar
- Chapter Four: In the Lion's Den
- Chapter five: The Pampero
The first-person narrator (who is only named Charley in one place , but otherwise apparently has no name) is at the beginning of the story in Montevideo , where he is mistaken for a Colonel Latorre, who appears to be part of a group of insurgents. The narrator, who does not want to have anything to do with the domestic politics of the country, leaves Montevideo with a group of tea collectors led by a Sennor Monteso. He tries to persuade the narrator to look for a secret Inca treasure. A kipu - a knot script - with directions to the treasure cannot be deciphered by the owner, a famous sendador named Geronimo Sabuco. The first-person narrator is suspicious of the tea collectors, but agrees because he finds the matter interesting.
On the way to the Sendador, the group's resemblance between the narrator and this Latorre is once again their undoing and they only narrowly escape various attacks.
At a rancho they meet Brother Jaguar with a dying man who testifies that he had watched the Sendador commit murder in order to take the knot script for himself. The father Jaguar joins the tour company. A little later Frick Turnerstick joins the group with his helmsman Larsen. With a trick they soon free themselves from Lopez Jordan's captivity and travel on to Corrientes via Buenos Aires . However, their ship crashes and Lopez Jordan surrounds them again on the rancho they visit. But they manage to escape together with Gomarra.
Gomarra reports that his brother was once murdered while watching an unknown person hiding kipus. The proof that the stranger was none other than the Sendador brings Gomarra to the side of society and together they set a trap in the swamp for the persecutors. The Jordanists can be captured by government forces.
Settings
In 2009 the band was recorded as an audio book in the editing of Karl May Verlag . The speaker was Heiko Grauel .
Remarks
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/El_Sendador
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Geronimo_Sabuco
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Lopez_Jordan
literature
- Eckehard Koch: Between the Rio de la Plata and the Cordilleras. On the historical background of May's South American novels . In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society (Jb-KMG) 1979 . Hansa-Verlag Hamburg 1979, pp. 137-168. ISBN 3-920-421-34-5 ( online version )
- Bernhard Kosciuszko: "You can take the good where you find it". A source study on Karl May's South American novels . In: Jb-KMG 1979. Hansa-Verlag Hamburg 1979, pp. 169-185. ( Online version )
- Hainer Plaul: Illustrated Karl May Bibliography. With the participation of Gerhard Klußmeier . Edition Leipzig 1988. ISBN 3-361-00145-5 (or) KG Saur, Munich – London – New York – Paris 1989. ISBN 3-598-07258-9 (directory of May publications published during May's lifetime)
- Wolfgang Hermesmeier, Stefan Schmatz : Karl May Bibliography 1913–1945 . Karl-May-Verlag Bamberg-Radebeul 2000. ISBN 3-7802-0157-7
- Reinhard Tschapke: At the Rio de la Plata. In: Gert Ueding (Ed.): Karl-May-Handbuch . Königshausen & Neumann Würzburg 2001, pp. 192–196. ISBN 3-8260-1813-3 ( online version )
- Wolfgang Hermesmeier, Stefan Schmatz: Development and expansion of the collected works. A success story for 110 years. In: The cut diamond. Karl May's Collected Works. Karl-May-Verlag Bamberg-Radebeul 2003, ISBN 3-7802-0160-7 , pp. 341-486, especially p. 364 ff.
Web links
- The text of the first edition (magazine version) on the website of KMG online .