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With Atticus Finch Harper Lee created an American role model. In “Go thy way, set a watchman,” he returned – and prepares the reader pain.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” Atticus Finch was to American role model. An upright fighter for justice and equality, a national saint in a world of backwardness and racism – even more so, since Gregory Peck embodied him in the filming of the novel
Harper Lee’s worldwide success from 1960 tells of a childhood. the thirties, in the town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the deep south of the USA. The girl Jean Louise, everyone called Scout, her brother Jem and their friend Dill hoodlums by the small-town vacation everyday, Scouts father Atticus Finch is a lawyer and assumes, against strong resistance from the city, the defense of a young African American who accused of rape is.
Now appears “, Go, set a watchman,” Lee’s new novel in German. We were promised a fascinating father-daughter story. They expected a similar reading luck as you would have experienced generations of readers with “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
Back in the fifties
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if only because the 89-year-old author Lee had, therefore withdrawn by the “Nightingale” in the sixties, from the public and published another book more – so it was a sensation, a “new” Harper Lee novel was announced as the beginning of the year. Not new in the strict sense, but the very first book she had written in 1957, and which had been rejected by the publishers. For decades, the manuscript was lost, now only by chance it was found.
The book is set in the fifties, its time of origin so. Jean Louise returns from New York with East Coast intellectual ideas in her hometown back and realizes that her dear father is not better than the other racists in town. He holds the African American, which the government in Washington wants to give equal rights, for not mature enough for it, insist on segregation. Painfully, the book, in sharp contrast to the “Nightingale”, in a not harmonious, torn, paranoid world that year for the strengthening of the civil rights movement, which broke with centuries-old conventions and views. In incredible hype about the book, whose first edition came to two million copies, the big shock of the novel went under – the dismantling of the American hero Atticus
New novel by Harper Lee The folk hero is suddenly Racist
Atticus Finch visited a Ku Klux Klan meeting and rushes over “Negro”: US writer Harper Lee shows in her new novel shocking features of their former hero.
The Guardian, the one finally ordered, is the conscience, and each person has his own. An exciting, painful reading, you have to overcome resistances while reading, and the hero concede that they can never be really ideal.
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