"he crosses only fleetingly but whose life - otherwise ordinary in every way - is forever changed by those few moments in time. At the story's conclusion, the enigmatic Mr. Summer, whose first name no one seems to know, who wanders silently through the countryside, and who is heard to utter but one sentence in the entire novel, appears to us as a man both noble and tragic, whose ultimate disappearance remains a mystery - and a secret - to all but the little boy he."
"A novel about the inner world of a teenager."
"Enkele episodes uit de jeugd van de auteur, die telkens doorkruist worden door een wonderlijke wandelaar."
"A middle-aged man, remembers his childhood meetings with the taciturn -- but amiable -- Mr Sommer, whose disappearance was a mystery to all except the young boy."
"In an altogether unexpected change of pace from the evil flamboyance of his phenomenal Perfume and the Kafkaesque paranoia of The Pigeon, the brilliant German writer Patrick Suskind joins forces with Sempe, the illustrator of New Yorker magazine fame, to bring us a haunting and deceptively simple tale of childhood, innocence lost, and memory as seen in flashback through the eyes of a man now middle-aged. Mr. Summer's Story is, in fact, the story of the child whose path."
""Zu der Zeit, als ich noch auf Bäume kletterte, lebte in unserem Dorf ein Mann mit Namen Herr Sommer. Kein Mensch wusste, wie Herr Sommer mit Vornamen hiess, und kein Mensch wusste auch, ob Herr Sommer einem Beruf nachging. Obwohl man über die Sommers und insbesondere über Herrn Sommer so gut wie nicht wusste, kann man doch mit Fug und Recht behaupten, dass es im Umkreis von mindestens sechzig Kilometern um den See herum keinen Menschen gab, Mann, Frau oder Kind - ja nicht einmal einen Hund -, der Herrn Sommer gekannt hätte, denn Herr Sommer war ständig unterwegs. Es mochte schneien oder hageln, es mochte stürmen oder wie aus Kübeln giessen, die Sonne mochte brennen, ein Orkan im Anzug sein, Herr Sommer war auf Wanderschaft."
"Réédition. Volume publié en 1991, chez le même éditeur. Monsieur Sommer, beau temps, mauvais temps, été comme hiver, parcourt la campagne, sac au dos. Oú va-t-il? Que fait-il? Parallèlement, la vie d'un garçonnet qui s'achemine vers l'âge adulte, l'âge d'homme, l'âge de monsieur Sommer. Cette juxtaposition mordante, peu réjouissante de la vie de l'adulte et de celle de l'enfant requiert des échanges complémentaires."
"A haunting and deceptively simple tale of childhood, innocence lost, and memory as seen in flashback through the eyes of a man now middle-aged."
"Unknowingly touched long ago. A timeless and universal fable for children and adults alike."
"Monsieur Sommer, beau temps, mauvais temps, été comme hiver, parcourt la campagne, sac au dos. Où va-t-il? Que fait-il? Parallèlement, la vie d'un garçonnet qui s'achemine vers l'âge adulte, l'âge d'homme, l'âge de monsieur Sommer. Cette juxtaposition mordante, peu réjouissante de la vie de l'adulte et de celle de l'enfant requiert des échanges complémentaires. Présentation enfantine."
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