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1960 Harper Lee was charged with her work “To Kill a Mockingbird” star. . Now appears with “Go, set a watchman,” her second novel

A Roman Harper Lee has released – but enough to get you to a star overnight make: 1960 was published “To Kill a Mockingbird” , the Harper Lee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. And now – the author is now 89 years old – they could celebrate a great success again …

“Go thy way, set a watchman” – a time before “To Kill a Mockingbird” emerged – the first work of Harper Lee will appear on July 14 in the US (“Go Set a Watchman”), three days later in German. The manuscript was considered lost – until it was according to publisher, a friend of the author in September 2014. It should be the originally filed in 1957 by the publisher JB Lippincott early version of “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The “Guardian” writes that “texts are largely independent of each other”. In addition to a different narrative perspective, the two works are also structured differently. Some passages, such as descriptions of places, but overlapped well

This work is already considered a sensation. “Go thy way, set a watchman” by Harper Lee, there are

Dramatic conversion at Atticus

The characters of” To Kill a Mockingbird “is also in” Go thy way, set a watchman “again Here, just 20 years older: A now grown Jean Louise Finch (“Scout”) returns to Maycomb and believes it has a small town in Alabama, which it has so dominated, faced with socio-political problems, not least also their relationship to her father Atticus be questioned. The “Guardian” judges: Would this work in 1960 appeared, it would almost certainly not have had the same success. It is less lovable and belongs to the genre in which people come back to find out that their homes have changed painfully. Scout had lost their pert boasting that their child first-person narrative in the “Nightingale” made so irresistible.

But most critics seem so far to be wondered at the dramatic transformation of Atticus Finch, who now apparently a racist is shown: His description is very confusing for fans of the 1960 published work, it is in the “New York Times”. Both books were empathetic. But while “To Kill a Mockingbird” close lege to have sympathy for outsiders like Boo and Tom Robinson, wanted to “Watchmen” that “we raise understanding of a fanatic named Atticus”. Buyers seem so far not deterred, in “amazon.com” is the book before the release topped the bestseller list.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” was to world literature

In “To Kill a Mockingbird” is about the siblings Scout and Jem, who grew up in Alabama in the 1930s. The reality of racial hatred, they face when her father, Atticus Finch, the lawyer, a rape accused Black defends. Finch teaches his children understanding and tolerance, all hostile attacks and their “respectable” citizens in defiance. In 1962 the award-winning work of Robert Mulligan with Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch was filmed , which it received an Oscar. Overall, the film took three golden boy. The book is with 40 million copies sold and translations into more than 40 languages ​​of the most widely read books in the world and among the most important American novels of the 20th century.

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