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The Witcher #0-0.7
Sorceleur : Les Origines
En ces temps obscurs, ogres, goules et vampires pullulent, et les magiciens sont des manipulateurs experts. Contre ces menaces, un tueur à gages exceptionnel, un mutant devenu le parfait assassin grâce à la magie et à un long entraînement : Geralt de Riv.
Fidèle aux règles de la corporation maudite des sorceleurs, il assume sa mission sans faillir dans un monde hostile et corrompu qui ne laisse aucune place à l’espoir.
Héros solitaire, il n’en fera pas moins d’étonnantes rencontres au cours de ses aventures : une magicienne capricieuse aux charmes vénéneux, un troubadour paillard au grand cœur… et enfin la petite Ciri, l’enfant élue. Geralt cessera-t-il un jour de fuir devant la mort pour affronter son véritable destin ?
Cette édition collector rassemble :
Une préface de Stéphane Marsan
Les trois premières aventures de Geralt, dans l’ordre chronologique : Le Dernier Vœu, L’Épée de la providence et La Saison des orages
Fidèle aux règles de la corporation maudite des sorceleurs, il assume sa mission sans faillir dans un monde hostile et corrompu qui ne laisse aucune place à l’espoir.
Héros solitaire, il n’en fera pas moins d’étonnantes rencontres au cours de ses aventures : une magicienne capricieuse aux charmes vénéneux, un troubadour paillard au grand cœur… et enfin la petite Ciri, l’enfant élue. Geralt cessera-t-il un jour de fuir devant la mort pour affronter son véritable destin ?
Cette édition collector rassemble :
Une préface de Stéphane Marsan
Les trois premières aventures de Geralt, dans l’ordre chronologique : Le Dernier Vœu, L’Épée de la providence et La Saison des orages
- GenresFantasyHigh Fantasy
852 pages, Paperback
Published September 20, 2017
27 people are currently reading
174 people want to read
About the author
Andrzej Sapkowski
205 books19.2k followersAndrzej Sapkowski, born June 21, 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. His first short story, The Witcher (Wiedźmin), was published in Fantastyka, Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of The Witcher, comprising three collections of short stories and five novels. This cycle and his many other works have made him one of the best-known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s.
The main character of The Witcher (alternative translation: The Hexer) is Geralt, a mutant assassin who has been trained since childhood to hunt down and destroy monsters. Geralt exists in an ambiguous moral universe, yet manages to maintain his own coherent code of ethics. At the same time cynical and noble, Geralt has been compared to Raymond Chandler's signature character Philip Marlowe. The world in which these adventures take place is heavily influenced by Slavic mythology.
Sapkowski has won five Zajdel Awards, including three for short stories "Mniejsze zło" (Lesser Evil) (1990), "Miecz przeznaczenia" (Sword of Destiny) (1992) and "W leju po bombie" (In a Bomb Crater) (1993), and two for the novels "Krew elfów" (Blood of Elves) (1994) and "Narrenturm" (2002). He also won the Spanish Ignotus Award, best anthology, for The Last Wish in 2003, and for "Muzykanci" (The Musicians), best foreign short story, same year.
In 1997, Sapkowski won the prestigious Polityka's Passport award, which is awarded annually to artists who have strong prospects for international success.
In 2001, a Television Series based on the Witcher cycle was released in Poland and internationally, entitled Wiedźmin (The Hexer). A film by the same title was compiled from excerpts of the television series but both have been critical and box office failures.
Sapkowski's books have been translated into Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, French, Ukrainian, and Portuguese. An English translation of The Last Wish short story collection was published by Gollancz in 2007.
The Polish game publisher, CD Projekt, created a role-playing PC game based on this universe, called The Witcher, which was released in October 2007. There is also a mobile version of the game which has been created by Breakpoint Games and is being published by Hands-On Mobile in Western Europe,Latin America and Asia Pacific.
The English translation of Sapkowski's novel Blood of Elves won the David Gemmell Legends Award in 2009.
The main character of The Witcher (alternative translation: The Hexer) is Geralt, a mutant assassin who has been trained since childhood to hunt down and destroy monsters. Geralt exists in an ambiguous moral universe, yet manages to maintain his own coherent code of ethics. At the same time cynical and noble, Geralt has been compared to Raymond Chandler's signature character Philip Marlowe. The world in which these adventures take place is heavily influenced by Slavic mythology.
Sapkowski has won five Zajdel Awards, including three for short stories "Mniejsze zło" (Lesser Evil) (1990), "Miecz przeznaczenia" (Sword of Destiny) (1992) and "W leju po bombie" (In a Bomb Crater) (1993), and two for the novels "Krew elfów" (Blood of Elves) (1994) and "Narrenturm" (2002). He also won the Spanish Ignotus Award, best anthology, for The Last Wish in 2003, and for "Muzykanci" (The Musicians), best foreign short story, same year.
In 1997, Sapkowski won the prestigious Polityka's Passport award, which is awarded annually to artists who have strong prospects for international success.
In 2001, a Television Series based on the Witcher cycle was released in Poland and internationally, entitled Wiedźmin (The Hexer). A film by the same title was compiled from excerpts of the television series but both have been critical and box office failures.
Sapkowski's books have been translated into Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, French, Ukrainian, and Portuguese. An English translation of The Last Wish short story collection was published by Gollancz in 2007.
The Polish game publisher, CD Projekt, created a role-playing PC game based on this universe, called The Witcher, which was released in October 2007. There is also a mobile version of the game which has been created by Breakpoint Games and is being published by Hands-On Mobile in Western Europe,Latin America and Asia Pacific.
The English translation of Sapkowski's novel Blood of Elves won the David Gemmell Legends Award in 2009.
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April 15, 2021
As a less common reader, i really enjoyed the lovely written short storys with a clear narrative style, fast dialogues and humor.
A real pleassure to read!
A real pleassure to read!
January 4, 2020
Introduction à l'univers du Sorceleur, cette série de nouvelles est inégale mais indispensable pour qui veut comprendre l'intrigue des tomes suivants ainsi que des jeux.
March 15, 2018
Die Kindle-Version zeigt bei allen Seiten nach der Seite 381 immer die selbe Seitennummer an nämlich Seite 381.
Das Buch, bestehend aus drei Büchern und hat ca. 1293 Seiten.
Schade, dass ich nicht das Original lesen kann. In der deutschen Übersetzung finden sich viele Rechtschreibfehler und Grammatikfehler.
Die Bücher selbst sind meiner Meinung nach sehr erfrischend einfallsreich und derb und intelligent und absurd und ...
Ich glaube kein typischer Fantasy-Leser zu sein, weil mein Interesse an Fantasy erst mit George R.R. Martins ASOIAF 1-5 und Patrick Rothfuss‘ Kingkiller Chronicle 1-2 erwachte.
Ich mag einfach gute Geschichten, egal in welchem Setting.
Sapkowski als Fantasy-Autor zu bezeichnen der vorhandene Sagen und Märchen einfließen lässt, ist richtig und falsch zugleich. Richtig, weil es stimmt, falsch weil die Märchen-Sagenwelt nur Staffage ist um Geschichten zu erzählen die spannend und gar nicht märchenhaft sind und wahrscheinlich sehr viel Bezug zum Hier und Jetzt haben.
Ganz schlau bin ich noch nicht geworden aus Sapkowski und muss daher weiterlesen.
Das Buch, bestehend aus drei Büchern und hat ca. 1293 Seiten.
Schade, dass ich nicht das Original lesen kann. In der deutschen Übersetzung finden sich viele Rechtschreibfehler und Grammatikfehler.
Die Bücher selbst sind meiner Meinung nach sehr erfrischend einfallsreich und derb und intelligent und absurd und ...
Ich glaube kein typischer Fantasy-Leser zu sein, weil mein Interesse an Fantasy erst mit George R.R. Martins ASOIAF 1-5 und Patrick Rothfuss‘ Kingkiller Chronicle 1-2 erwachte.
Ich mag einfach gute Geschichten, egal in welchem Setting.
Sapkowski als Fantasy-Autor zu bezeichnen der vorhandene Sagen und Märchen einfließen lässt, ist richtig und falsch zugleich. Richtig, weil es stimmt, falsch weil die Märchen-Sagenwelt nur Staffage ist um Geschichten zu erzählen die spannend und gar nicht märchenhaft sind und wahrscheinlich sehr viel Bezug zum Hier und Jetzt haben.
Ganz schlau bin ich noch nicht geworden aus Sapkowski und muss daher weiterlesen.
July 23, 2017
I really like the different novels around Geralt's adventures. A little less for Season of Storms because some actions or conclusions are brought weirdly.
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April 17, 2019
Großartige Reihe! Eine meiner liebsten Buchreihen!
January 16, 2025
One of my favorite series of all time
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