Les Aventures De Tintin Au Pays des Soviets - Tome 1 (Adventures of Tintin, 1) (French Edition)

I love color, but it was all black and white. Also, it was an early rendition of the Tin Tin character. At first, I didn't like it, but after reading a couple pages I got into the script. I had to appreciate the value of the vintage design, in order to accept it as fun to read, because I really enjoy the color copy. I will still keep it. If I had a color copy choice, I would buy it, in order to enrich my reading experience.

Tintin!!!

Superb

Great learning tool for reinforcing French, especially when paired with the English especially for history and comic buffs.

The value of "Tintin au Pays des Soviets" ("Tintin in the Land of the Soviets") is as much historical as it is literary since this is the first of Les Aventures de Tintin created by Hergé. The date is January 10, 1929 and in Brussels the intrepid young reporter for "Le Petit Vingtième" Tintin and his dog Milou board a train for Moscow. There Tintin spends his time denouncing the methods of the Communist Party and then avoiding attempts by the Soviet secret police to silence him for his views. By the time Tintin makes it back home word of his exploits has arrived ahead of him and he is greeted as a hero.Today "Tintin au Pays des Soviets" constitutes something of a false start for Hergé's series. The seven volume collection of the Three-in-One series of "The Adventures of Tintin," which is probably the most common way for today's readers to get a hold of the Tintin stories, begins with the third adventures, "Tintin Au America." Both this story and "Tintin Au Congo" are left out of the "official" canon, the former because of the suspect ideology and the latter because of the implicit racism. What emerges in the other eighteen Tintin tales is more pure storytelling that takes place in a created world that bears only an allegorical relationship to the real world. Besides, Tintin does not even have his trademark tuft of hair at this point.Consequently, Tintin fans who track down the first couple of adventures will need to take both tales with a grain of salt. Whereas the other stories tend to stand on their own, the first two are clearly dated. "Tintin au Pays des Soviets" especially requires commentary or annotation that reveals exactly what was going on in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s that Hergé and the left found necessary to attack, even in a comic book adventure. I know that Hergé was working for "Le Petit Vingtième," an anti-Communist church-run newspaper, but I also know that he also apologized for this book later in life because he had never actually visited the Soviet Union and had based his story on one book, which was apparently written for propaganda purposes.Consequently, it is fairly safe to say that this particular Tintin adventure is really not intended for children until they are old enough to understand the politics of the time in which it was written. It might be ironic that you should read the first couple of Tintin adventures after you have read the other eighteen, but that is probably the best way to proceed.

Amazing how, in 1929, a comic book could reveal more truth about Bolshevik Russia, than all the hypocritical and cruel academics of the world could.While the Western fellow travelers of the Soviet tyranny, where presenting the Soviet Union, as a utopian brave new world, Herge reveled the true hell on earth that it was (and that all Marxist-Leninist regimes have been since), through this amazing adventure, and the true villainy of the Communists and their Western backers.Who knows how the immoral leftist academics are deceiving us today.Moral clarity and simplicity is needed more than ever today, as the Judeo-Christian world, and our great Western civilization , is threatened by evil forces today, in new guises, and much of the intellectual and media establishment turns it around and condemns those who are fighting to sustain freedom while sanitizes devils.And anyway , it is a great Tinitn adventure , vital to everyone's Tintin collection.

I ordered the french version of this book twice and both times I received the book in english so needless to say I wasn't happy.