Marianne Dreams

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Marianne Dreams is a children - fantasy novel of British author Catherine Storr from the year 1958th

Action overview

Marianne is a young girl who is bedridden due to a long-term illness. She draws a picture to pass her time and finds that she is spending her dreams in the picture she drew. As time goes by, she gets sicker, and begins to spend more and more time trapped in her fantasy world. However, their attempts to improve things through the drawing make their situation worse. Her only companion in her dream world is a boy named Mark, who is also suffering from a long-term disability in the real world.

Marianne Dreams was first published by Faber and Faber in 1958 and was first printed in paperback by Puffin Books in 1964. It was decorated with drawings by Marjorie-Ann Watt . In German it was published as Marianne dreams 1986 by Ueberreuter in Vienna .

Catherine Storr's later novel Marianne and Mark was a sequel to Marianne Dreams .

Film, television and theater adaptations

Marianne Dreams has been the basis of several film, television and radio adaptations , including British broadcaster ITV's 1972 children's television series Escape into Night (which stayed pretty close to the original) and the British horror film Paperhouse true (directed by Bernhard Rose ) from 1988 (which was less true to the work). Storr himself adapted the novel as an opera libretto in 1999: The first performance of the opera Marianne Dreams took place in 2004 with the music of the British composer Andrew Lowe Watson . Will Tuckett performed a new adaptation of Moira Buffini at the Almeida Theater in London December 2007.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marianne Dreams, Catherine Storr, illustrated by Marjorie-Ann Watts , Faber and Faber , London, 1958, ISBN 0-571-20212-8
  2. ^ Marianne dreams, Catherine Storr, translation by Christa Mitscha-Märheim, illustrations by Marjorie-Ann Watts, Ueberreuter, Vienna, 1986, ISBN 3-8000-2712-7
  3. ↑ Classics: Marianne Dreams (1958)