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In Tintin in the Congo, one of his earliest adventures, our intrepid reporter hunts down both criminals and wild game. The story was written in 1930 and first appeared in book form in 1931, and some of the parts are so dated that for years the book was unavailable in English. This edition reprints on black-and-white newsprint the original 1931 version. In one scene, Tintin tells a group of African children "Today, I'm going to talk to you about your country: Belgium!" When the story was updated and colorized (but not translated into English) in 1946, this became a simple lesson in addition. In addition to the colonial attitude, the Africans are portrayed as primitive, simple-minded folk ("He doesn't look very bright," Snowy opines about their guide), and Tintin reveals a brutal side by slaughtering half the wildlife on the continent (including blowing up a rhinoceros with dynamite!) and declaring while pursuing an enemy, "Sure as my name's Tintin, I'll get rid of him once and for all." Herge himself was embarrassed by much of Tintin in the Congo, and it's not a part of the regular canon, but fans who can accept it as a product of its time will enjoy seeing their hero in one more adventure, one that provides a jumping-off point for the much-better-known Tintin in America. --David Horiuchi
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Tintin goes to the Congo. Fascimile edition of the original.
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Classic Tintin - Second in the series.......2007-08-07
This is the second in the 24 Tintin adventures. Tintin the reporter is sent to the Belgium Congo where he does some big game hunting, very little reporting, and busts a diamond smuggling ring run by Al Capone's gang in America (third book is "Tintin in America" where they meet).
Tintin looks like the Tintin in subsequent novels and his character has 'gelled' (See my review of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets). Herge's depiction of Africans is dated (1930s) and may be offensive to some. However, his treatment of Africans in the plot is evenhanded; just as there are good and bad white characters, there are good and bad African characters.
All in all, a must have for a complete Tintin collection.
Outstanding for Children.......2007-07-12
This one is great for kids. Every child in North America and Europe should read this wonderful book.
Tintin's un-pc second album.......2007-06-28
Tintin's second album is famous (or infamous) for its alleged racism. Actually, I think a better word would be paternalism: this book doesn't hate Africans as much as consider them like children, unable to govern themselves and in need of guidance from their white european masters. (In real history, the Belgian colonization of the Congo was known for its exceptional brutality, even by the standards of European colonialism, but I guess that's another story). No wonder this book is hard to get in an english version: it was not translated but after many decades. The book itself is typical of the early Tintin books with its protagonist having hair thin escapes from sure death at almost every page, though here the situations are probably more absurd than at any Tintin album (Tintin killing a rhino by drilling a hole in it and putting dynamite inside?). It's also very politically uncorrect by today standards as Tintin decimates the local fauna without seeming guilt. Despite all this, the book in itself is not a disaster. Actually, and taking aside its politically dubious undertones, it's quite entertaining.
This is the edited version!!.......2007-05-25
The book is not faithful to the first colored edition as it is supposed to be. This is the edited version where the exploding Rhino was replaced with more P.C. drawings. What is the point of this edition if they are not going to give us the original version even if it is considered by some to be crude or immaturish??
And yes, the exploding rhino was featured in the very first colored edition, not just the B/W one as some would believe.
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- Artistic advance for Herge, but too many dated attitudes
- Very Good, But Not for Young Children.
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Tintin Au Congo (Book is NOT Bilingual) (Tintin)
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Tintin goes on a big game hunt in the Congo.......2004-11-22
The plot to The Aventures of Tintin in the Congo has Tintin on a big game hunting vacation in the Congo to shoot animals with gun and camera. (Camera only comes into play in the last eight pages of the book when he has already shot 15 antelope, a monkey, a large snake (which was eating a man, so not really bad to kill) and an elephant.) On the boat ride over Snowy gets into scrapes with a parrot, an electric fish and a stowaway who remains undiscovered except by Snowy. In the Congo the stowaway follows them and keeps trying to cause trouble for Tintin. Is he still mad about Snowy or does he have deeper motives? ....
Probably people are going to do racism to death in the other reviews. I don't see it as much of an issue. Most scenes show Tintin alone in the forest shooting animals, so there are no natives to portray negatively. (If British people were in the mood to complain about Thomson and Thompson they could.) Obviously the racism issue is why this Tintin book gets released less frequently than others.
I suggest reading some other Tintin books before you read this one. TIntin does do clever things for example using an electro magnet to escape danger and assuming a disguise to unmask a crime ring. However he also does clever things like feed alkaseltzer and water to a leopard and get a snake to start swallowing its own tale. Mostly he is just shooting animals and getting rescued by Snowy or missionaries and is very passive compared to in other books.
The infamous "racist" Tintin adventure in the Congo.......2004-01-01
"Tintin Au Congo" ("Tintin in the Congo") was the second adventure of the intrepid reporter and is one of the most controversial stories (along with "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets," albeit for different reasons). The problem with this Hergé offering from the 1930s is that it contains racist ideas and images. "Tintin Au Congo" fully embraces Belgian colonialism, white supremacy, and heroic missionaries bringing the word of God to the unwashed savages. Tintin himself is almost unrecognizable to readers who have come to love him through the traditional 21 adventures in the easily available canon. Tintin calls natives "boy," bullies them around, and has clearly come to Africa to have a grand timing shooting animals during his safari holiday. More recognizable are the local gangsters who assume Tintin is there to bring them to justice and take pre-emptive action, which results in the recognizable series of perilous escapes. The best part of this adventure is that Milou does more than his fair share in rescuing his master from trouble and ends up becoming the king of the pygmies.
As you would expect Hergé works in as many exotic animals as he can into the story. So there are plenty of crocodiles, snakes, buffalo, giraffes, rhinos and the like. But the problem is that there are also a tribe of monkeys who bear an uncomfortable resemblance to the natives. Fortunately, the benevolent Belgians are there to make the Congo a better place. Now, as far as I am concerned there are clearly a lot of indefensible things in "Tintin Au Congo." Hergé's story and art clearly contain racist elements. I do find the story to be of historical value because it represents a clear manifestation of the racism of the times. Does this get Hergé off the hook? Absolutely not. But given the humanitarianism that is evident in the vast majority of the Adventures of Tintin it is clear that Hergé's attitudes changed for the better. If George Wallace and Strom Thurmond could get away with similar conversions on substantially less evidence in their favor in the political arena, than Hergé can get the benefit of the doubt when we take into account his entire body of work.
Young kids who love the Adventures of Tintin should not read "Tintin in the Congo" until they are older and can better understand why an author they admire could tell a story so racist and offensive. They certainly do not want to read this story at a point in their lives where they cannot realize what is wrong about this particular story. This is the second Tintin story, but it should not be one of the first Tintin stories anybody reads. With its rather limited availability, it probably will not be.
TINTIN AU CONGO.......2003-11-20
I bought the entire collection of TinTin books to interest my grandson to read and get off the tube. I love all the books, but my favorite in Tintin in Tibet but let's stop trying to analyze stories that were drawn by a young boy scout, who probably, like most of the children in Belgium, had never seen a black person. Tintin au Congo must have been the first I book I "read". These pictures and story were drawn and written when you were still lynching blacks. White comedians appeared in black face..so keep trying to find fault in a book that was solely written for children. Belgium was never an imperialistic nation, it's a kingdom. It was a funny story, the world of make believe, Tintin did not put a stick of dynamite after drilling a rhino. It was adventure for children, to see other people with chilldren eyes,
a marvelous adventure with animals we had never seen. How do these rightgeous critics rate TinTin in America with only gangsters and cowboys...the Blue Lotus, with British harrassing Chinese and the Japanese all look like jackasses. Captain Haddock inhales whisky, but he is also the president of the League des Marins Antialcooliques. ...
Artistic advance for Herge, but too many dated attitudes.......2002-03-28
'Tintin In The Congo' is something of a taboo for devotees of Herge - how to reconcile the famed humanitarianism and tolerance of the Tintin books with the unthinking racism that informs this adventure? And so there have been attempts to pretend it doesn't exist - you won't find it on the back cover of Tintin books with the other volumes - or to excuse it, by showing how Herge was merely reflecting the attitudes of his time, although, three decades after 'Heart Of Darkness' and the findsings of Roger Casement, it's difficult to justify as naive the (ahem) white-washing of genocidal Belgian colonialism, with the benevolent missionary project celebrated here, full of heroic action-priests. This is certainly the most difficult Tintin to read - watching our hero referring to natives as 'boy'; bullying them into working, and generally abusing them for his mistakes; treating Africa as a big playground where people exist to serve him and animals for the jolly slaughter.
Tintin is on a safari holiday to the Congo. His presence, however, is minsinterpreted by the area's gangsters, who send one particularly unlovely goon to get rid of him, which he attempts to do by raising the natives against Tintin. Among the various trials inflicted on our hero, the most memorable include being hung over a river of hungry crocodiles, being charged by an army of M'hatavus; and precipitating on a branch over steep rapids.
'Congo' is really Snowy's adventure - from his opening struggle with a parrot on board their cruise, Snowy is prominent, getting into scrapes, endlessly rescuing his recklessly adventurous master, at one point even made king by a tribe of pygmies. This focus is appropriate in an environment stuffed with animals; encounters with crocodiles, snakes, monkeys, buffalo, hippopotami, giraffes and rhinos make up the bulk of the action. This has a sinister side - the monkeys bear a striking resemblance to the Africans, whose flock-like instincts, dumb obedience and malleability marks them as barely above the level of animals, their minds as primitive as their way of life.
There are two types of colonialism in this adventure - one, bad, that exploits the natives, treats them as slaves and robs them of their resources; the other, that of Tintin and the missionaries who teach the natives that their home country is Belgium, is benevolent, bringing railways, medicine, education technology, progress. I think it's possible, however, that Herge, contributing to a right-wing Catholic magazine, was straining at his story's ideological limits - the reduction of the train service to a rickety tin-can hardly heralds the success of colonialism; the repeated imagery of holes, trees, fluids (water, rubber seeping from trees), arrows etc., might take on a Freudian dimensnion, suggesting unconscious anxieties behind the optimistic facade - the incident with the buffalos might suggest as much. When Tintin prepares to shoot a rhino, the film camera he had been carrying is turned away - this is an activity best not documented. At one point, a gangster disguises himself as a priest, momentarily suggesting a connection between the two (exploiting) groups. Throughout the story, judgements and observations made by Tintin based on appearances - the wandering of a leopard into a schoolroom; the charge of whooping pygmies - are shown to be inaccurate. The importation of the less pleasant aspects of colonialism - especially militarism - is seen to blow up in the natives' faces.
The well-meaning attempts to ignore 'Congo' is wrong, a denial of history, an attempt to pretend Western Europe was never fundamentally racist. The real shame is that the book is a big improvement on its predecessor - the drawing is much more controlled and imaginative - memorable images include the torchlight revelation of a hunting monkey; the rescue attempt by the priest on two wires over the rapids, with the knife-wielding gangster looking on; the pygmy charge through the forest; the silhouette of Tintin hanging from the rope ladder of a biplane as he escapes a herd of buffalo. Most brilliantly, the landscape often mirrors the action, e.g. the palm trees overlooking the homicidal witch-doctor at night.
Very Good, But Not for Young Children........2002-01-28
I am a huge Tintin fan and I was very excited to get this book IN ENGLISH! I liked it, but I was a little surprised by Tintin's unusually brutal attitude towards jungle animals. I mean, it was typical to kill an animal for dinner, but when he killed that gorilla and used it's hide to make a suit, YUCK! I didn't really mind this, but my younger sister did, and other young kids might. Still though, this is a good book. I recomend it.
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Tintin goes on a big game hunt in the Congo.......2004-11-22
The Aventures of Tintin in the Congo is a bit different fromother Tintin books. Basically Tintin is on vacation in Africa to shoot animals with gun and camera. Camera only comes into play in the last eight pages of the book when he has already shot 15 antelope, a monkey, a large snake (which was eating a man, so not really bad to kill) and an elephant. This book has definitely been called racist, but I don't see it as much of an issue. Most scenes show Tintin alone in the forest shooting animals, so there are no natives to portray negatively. Also this is set in the colonial Congo.
The plot as previously stated has Tintin on a big game hunting vacation in the Congo. On the boat ride over Snowy gets into scrapes with a parrot, an electric fish and a stowaway who remains undiscovered except by Snowy. In the Congo the stowaway follows them and keeps trying to cause trouble for Tintin. Is he still mad about Snowy or does he have deeper motives? ....
Read some other Tintin books before you read this one. TIntin does do clever things for example using an electromagnet to escape danger and assuming a disguise to unmask a crime ring. However he also does clever things like feed alkaseltzer and water to a big cat and get a snake to start swallowing its own tale. Mostly he is just shooting animals and getting rescued by Snowy or missionaries and is basically passive.
*** Tim fahrt auf Grosswildjagd ***
In Tim im Congo fahrt Tim nach Congo auf Grosswildjagd mit Gewehr und Comera. ( Er benutzt Fotoapparat nur in die letzte acht Seite nach die schiessen 15 Hirschen, ein Affe, eine grosse Schlange (Die Schlange versucht ein Mann zu fressen, also sie war wirklich gut zu schiessen.) und ein Elephant. Wegen der Seereise nach Congo aengert Struppi ein Papagei, ein elektrisch Fisch and ein blinder Passagier. In dem Congo folgt der blinder Passagier Tim und Struppi. Ist er noch veraengert mit Struppi oder hat er einer schade Handlung? ...
Veile Menschen finden Rassismus in dieser Buch. Ich finde das nicht viel. Meistens jagt Tim und Struppi allein im Wildnis, deschalb gibt es keine Afrikaner zu darstellen. (Auch koennen Britischer ab Thompson und Thomson klagen, wenn die wollen.) Noch die Raccismus ist der Grund fur die Abwesenheit dieses Buch im Vereinigten Staaten.
Vieleicht ist es besser andere Tim und Struppi Buecher zu lesen frueher als Tim im Congo. Heir macht Tim klug zb er benuzt einen Elektromagnet und tragt eine Verkleidung. Aber auch macht Tim klug und boese zb er fuehrt Alkaselzter und Wasser zu Leopard, and macht eine Schlange die Schlangschwanz fressen. (Ach Ich hoffe diesse Ubersetzung rechts hat. Nichts schmutig was passiert. Wirklich.) Meisten schiesst Tim Tieren und macht nicht so viel. Also ich mag andere Tim Buecher besser.
Entschuldigung fur mein Deutsch.
Fred.......2001-04-22
vary, vary goot bouk. hily reomendabel. goot reedeng matereal wile on toilit.
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Tintin goes on a big game hunt in the Congo.......2004-11-23
The Aventures of Tintin in the Congo is a bit different fromother Tintin books. Basically Tintin is on vacation in Africa to shoot animals with gun and camera. Camera only comes into play in the last eight pages of the book when he has already shot 15 antelope, a monkey, a large snake (which was eating a man, so not really bad to kill) and an elephant. This book has definitely been called racist, but I don't see it as much of an issue. Most scenes show Tintin alone in the forest shooting animals, so there are no natives to portray negatively. Also this is set in the colonial Congo.
The plot as previously stated has Tintin on a big game hunting vacation in the Congo. On the boat ride over Snowy gets into scrapes with a parrot, an electric fish and a stowaway who remains undiscovered except by Snowy. In the Congo the stowaway follows them and keeps trying to cause trouble for Tintin. Is he still mad about Snowy or does he have deeper motives? ....
Read some other Tintin books before you read this one. TIntin does do clever things for example using an electromagnet to escape danger and assuming a disguise to unmask a crime ring. However he also does clever things like feed alkaseltzer and water to a big cat and get a snake to start swallowing its own tale. Mostly he is just shooting animals and getting rescued by Snowy or missionaries and is basically passive.
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V1:Tintin Pays Soviets, Tintin Congo; V2:Tintin Amerique, Cigares Pharaon, Lotus Bleu; V3:Oreille Cassee, Ile Noire, Sceptre d'Ottokar; V4: Crabe Pinces d'Or, Etoile Mysterieuse, Secret Licorne; V5: Tresor Rackham le Rouge, Sept Boules Cristal, Temple Soleil; V6:Tintin Pays Or Noir, Objectif Lune, On a Marches ur la Lune; V7: Affaire Tournesol, Coke en Stock, Tintin Tibet; V8:Bijoux Castafiore, Vol 714 Sydney, Tintin Picaros
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- tintin in the congo,a truly great book
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Les aventures de Tintin, reporter du petit "Vingtieme", au Congo
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tintin in the congo,a truly great book.......2001-05-16
tin tin in the congo is a great book if you have someway to translate it. If you dont dont buy this book. since they are comics there is not much to translate. Since it is the first tintin it is black + white. It is very racist in the way it portrays other colors/culture.
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Tintin goes on a big game hunt in the Congo.......2004-12-06
The Aventures of Tintin in the Congo is a bit different fromother Tintin books. Basically Tintin is on vacation in Africa to shoot animals with gun and camera. Camera only comes into play in the last eight pages of the book when he has already shot 15 antelope, a monkey, a large snake (which was eating a man, so not really bad to kill) and an elephant. Probably people are going to do racism to death in the other reviews. I don't see it as much of an issue. Most scenes show Tintin alone in the forest shooting animals, so there are no natives to portray negatively. (If British people were in the mood to complain about Thomson and Thompson they could.) Obviously the racism issue is why this Tintin book gets released less frequently than others.
The plot as previously stated has Tintin on a big game hunting vacation in the Congo. On the boat ride over Snowy gets into scrapes with a parrot, an electric fish and a stowaway who remains undiscovered except by Snowy. In the Congo the stowaway follows them and keeps trying to cause trouble for Tintin. Is he still mad about Snowy or does he have deeper motives? ....
Read some other Tintin books before you read this one. TIntin does do clever things for example using an electro magnet to escape danger and assuming a disguise to unmask a crime ring. However he also does clever things like feed alkaseltzer and water to a big cat and get a snake to start swallowing its own tale. Mostly he is just shooting animals and getting rescued by Snowy or missionaries and is basically passive.
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One of the funniest books I've ever read.......1999-08-07
This is easily in the top three funniest books I've ever read(and I've read alot.) The imagination behind the Wade brother'sletters themselves is incredible. And clearly their targets just don't get it. Please, Wade brothers, do this again!
A Satirical Trojan Horse!!!.......1999-06-21
The authors do a masterful job of exposing the humorless self-importance of the subjects of their correspondence. The discerning reader will detect a strain of melancholy and futility running throughout the mirthless, dehumanized responses to the authors' inquiries. Bravo, Brothers Wade!
Simply GREAT !.......1999-06-20
For those with a good sense of humor ... this is a must read !! I knew the book just a little before Mr. James Wade came to my school. Then he was my professor in a great management course. You can't imagine how fun and professional this great person is. The book gives perfectly the image of how "Woody" is creative ! Do not miss this hilarious peace of work !!
Do not try this at home.......1999-06-17
I got this book a couple years ago and love it. It's great to take to places where you'll have to wait a while because you don't need to read it from beginning to end- you can open it to anyplace and flip around. I loved how the Wade brothers assumed the identies of all sorts of people, from mental patients to animal jewelry designers. It just shows how versatile they are. Their letters are always formal, though hilarious (such as asking Listerine for recipies and trying to find a house shaped like a W that can withstand atomic bombs). An excellent book for long- or short-term reading.
Laughs with class - reality can be funny........1997-05-16
A very good follow up to MY BUSH PIG'S NAME IS BORIS, Humorist James "Woody" Wade is joined by his brother, Stu "Pointster" Wade in this effort. It's great to see that the business world can poke fun at itself by doing nothing more than business as usual. Can be easily read in one sitting if you don't mind cleaning up after yourself from time to time
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