Johannes (story)
Johannes is a short story by the German writer Heinz Körner .
The book
The first work of Heinz grains appeared in 1978 in the Amp-Verlag . The following editions by Lucy Körner Verlag . John has been translated into numerous languages, including Japanese , Korean, and Chinese . The narrative is written from the perspective of a first-person narrator .
content
The content of the book is largely a conversation between the first-person narrator Klaus, an employee, and Johannes, a mysterious older man. According to Matthias Bullach , who read in and published the story as an audio book, it describes in four chapters the “magical journey of the narrator to himself”, “the illusory world of lies and compromises that we have all built around us”, “that Awareness of how much we are caught in our cowardice and hinder the development of our abilities "," the uniqueness and importance of every single person "," the courage and the strength to find our own way "and" the secret of life ".
construction
In the first chapter, The Encounter , Klaus gets to know Johannes. The second and longest chapter After the opening meeting , the conversation forms the main part of the story. In the third chapter, The Homecoming , the narrator finds his way back home after meeting Johannes and reconsiders what he has heard. The book in the last chapter is the gift that John gave the narrator and contains further suggestions for future action and life.
Book titles cited and discussed therein
The text Please hear what I am saying ... quoted on three pages from From the Difficulty to Love by Tobias Brocher . In addition, the story talks about the illustrated book Nur Menschen by Oswald Kettenberger .
reception
The story was on the Spiegel bestseller list of the industry magazine Buchreport for more than 300 weeks and sold well over 1 million times. There are no known reviews or literary criticisms in well-known newspapers or the like.
expenditure
pocketbooks
- John . Narrative. Amp-Verlag, Fellbach 1978. ISBN 3-922028-00-4
- John . Narrative. Lucy Körner Verlag, Fellbach 1978. (30th edition 1990) ISBN 3-922028-00-4 .
Audio book
- Johannes - Unabridged reading version . Read in by Matthias Bullach . MATTABU-Production, Hamburg 2003. ISBN 978-3-00-012145-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c MATTABU-Production page 14 , PDF file with 21 pages of Mattabu-Production, for the audio book Johannes s. Page 14, online at mattabu.de
- ↑ a b c The authors , including Heinz Körner, website of the Belletris Verlag, online at belletris-verlag.de
- ↑ Heiko: Johannes review of the story, saved on September 11, 2014, online at kuschelkirche.de