Inkheart (novel)
Inkheart is a multi-award-winning fantasy book by Cornelia Funke and the first volume in the Inkworld trilogy . The sequels are called Ink Blood and Ink Death . The German version of the book was published by Cecilie Dressler Verlag in 2003 and has been sold over 5 million times worldwide.
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Meggie is the twelve-year-old daughter of the bookbinder Mortimer Folchart, known as Mo. She inherited his passion for books. Her mother Resa, Meggie is told, went on an adventure one day and has not returned since. One rainy night a man named Dustfinger comes to their house and warns them about a certain Capricorn. The next morning, Mo says that they still have to go to a certain Elinor Loredan (Meggie's maternal great-aunt) because he has to bind a few new books from her. Dustfinger and his horned marten Gwin take them with them, including the book “Inkheart”. They want to hide it there from Capricorn because he really wants it.
Despite their hiding place, they are tracked down by Capricorn's men (first and foremost Basta, who thinks he is Capricorn's personal favorite), who are supposed to kidnap Mo and also take the book with them. Since Elinor has exchanged the covers, he brings a wrong one to his master. Meggie, Elinor and Dustfinger decide to hand over the right book in order to get Mo free for it. But when they arrive in Capricorn's village, Dustfinger turns out to be a traitor, which is why Meggie and Elinor are locked in Mo's cell, although they have handed over the correct book. Since Mo Meggie and Elinor owe an explanation, he begins to tell:
He has the gift of reading objects and living beings out of stories if they are well written. In return, objects or living beings must disappear from the real world into the fictitious as placeholders. One day he was reading from the book Inkheart Basta, Capricorn and Dustfinger and Teresa, Meggie's mother, disappeared into it with her two cats. Since then, Dustfinger has longed for his homeland and is doing everything to come back. But Mo cannot do this because he cannot control who or what he reads into or out of the book; besides, Mo knows, since he has read the book Inkheart completely, that Dustfinger would die at the end of the story. Capricorn, on the other hand, does not want to go back to the story in the book under any circumstances, but enjoys his life in Meggie and Mo's world.
The next day the prisoners are taken to the village church and make the acquaintance of the bumbling Darius, who also has Mo's gift, but stutters while reading and therefore reads the figures incompletely. Mo should now replace the reader. Before that, however, Capricorn destroyed all copies of Inkheart before Dustfinger's eyes that he had collected over many years - except for one last copy, whereupon Dustfinger became angry. Mo has to pick gold for Capricorn to prove his skills. He manages to do that with the book Treasure Island , but when he reads from the book A Thousand and One Nights , he brings the boy Farid out of history. The boy is locked in the cell next door.
During the night they are freed by Dustfinger and flee the village with him. However, they are followed, leading to an argument in which Mo is bitten by a dog and injured his arm.
After fleeing to Mo decides with Meggie the author of Inkheart , Fenoglio, seek to ask him if he has another copy of the book. After Mo tells him the problem, Fenoglio explains to them that his copies were also stolen.
In the meantime, Elinor has traveled home and finds all of her precious books burned. Angry, she calls Mo and immediately flies to him by plane. Mo is supposed to pick her up from the airport while Meggie stays with the author. During this time Meggie is discovered by Capricorn's men, including Basta, and brought back to Capricorn's village together with Fenoglio. Basta says that when you have the daughter, you automatically have the father too. But he's wrong. Instead, Meggie realizes that she has inherited Mo's gift by reading the fairy Tinker Bell out of Peter Pan . Capricorn finds out about this and appoints her as the new reader.
During the time with Farid, Dustfinger is again near Capricorn's village when Mo arrives with Elinor. The four decide that they will try to save Meggie and Fenoglio. Dustfinger secretly goes to the village to get the last copy of Inkheart with the mute maid Resa . However, he and she are discovered and captured.
Meggie comes to church the next day and learns from Capricorn that she should read out a certain shadow, whereby nothing must go wrong, Meggie should therefore prepare for it and read it out on a solemn occasion. She sees both prisoners and recognizes her mother in Resa.
Back in the cell, Fenoglio tells her that the shadow is a figure who is immortal and inviolable and only listens to Capricorn and does what he commands. Fenoglio then decides, since he is the author of the book, to rewrite the shadow as a benign figure.
During this time, Dustfinger and Teresa learn that they are to be killed by the shadow on a solemn occasion. They are locked in the crypt by Capricorn, where they await their execution. Dustfinger manages to outsmart Basta and flees while Basta and Teresa stay in the dungeon cell. Because of this, Capricorn decides to execute Basta too, while Dustfinger flees to Basta's house.
In the meantime, Capricorn's men also take Elinor prisoner. She comes to Teresa and Basta's cell. On the festive evening, Mo and Farid set a fire to create a distraction and thus save Meggie. But she reads out the shadow, but with Fenoglio's letters she can bring it to the good side and kill Capricorn and the rest of the followers or put them to flight, including Basta. Meanwhile, the shadow crumbles and everyone it has killed comes back to life. Meggie and Mo notice after they have come back together that Fenoglio has disappeared into the ink world, since he was apparently the placeholder for the shadow.
While Meggie is with her family, Dustfinger and Farid meet again to steal the book Inkheart because Dustfinger wants to find a new reader. Along with Darius, a couple from death risen Inkheart -Bewohnern, Teresa, Mo and Meggie, Elinor moves into their house back and buy again rare books.
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- Meggie Folchart is a twelve year old girl who grows up alone with her father Mortimer. Like her father, she has the gift of reading figures or things into or out of a story while reading.
- Mortimer Folchart , called Mo or Magic Tongue, is Meggie's father. He is a bookbinder and lover. He has the gift of reading beings or things from texts. He leads an unsteady life and moves from place to place with his daughter.
- Teresa Folchart , called Resa, is Mo’s wife and Meggie’s mother. When Meggie was three, she was read into the ink world in exchange for three people who had been picked out with her two cats, and after many years she was dumb as a maid in Capricorn's village, since she was picked out by Darius.
- Dustfinger is the main character from Fenoglio's fictional story Inkheart . He would have died in the book, but Mortimer Folchart reads him out. Since then he's been unhappy in the real world and wants to go back. He loves the fire and was in Inkheart , a fire-eater.
- Capricorn is the villain of the story. It too comes from the world of ink and is picked out by Mo with Basta and Dustfinger. In contrast to Dustfinger, however, he likes the new world.
- Basta is Capricorn's right hand and is devoted to him like a loyal dog. He loves his knife and is very superstitious . It is also read out by Mo.
- Elinor Loredan is Meggie's maternal great-aunt. She loves books more than anything and treats them as if they were her children.
- Farid comes from one of the stories from the Arabian Nights and was read by Mo in Capricorn's castle. He befriends Dustfinger and sees him as his great role model. Unlike him, he is happy to have come out of his story.
- Fenoglio is the creator of the fictional story Inkheart. He is an old man and is completely fascinated by his created characters.
- Mortola , also known as Magpie, is a favorite maid and the secret mother of Capricorn.
- Darius is Capricorn's reader, as he also has Mortimer and Meggie's gift. However, he stutters with fear, so that the people he reads are mostly mutilated.
- Gwin , a horned marten from the ink world and Dustfingers, later also Farid's idiosyncratic companion.
Film adaptations
- In 2008 the book was filmed under the title of the same name . It was directed by Iain Softley .
Audio book
The German audio book consists of 16 CDs by Rainer Strecker , who also read other Funkes books as audio books, spoken. Ulrich Mask took over the production . Music is played between the chapters.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 10 years of ink heart in DerWesten . Article dated September 16, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2020