تان تان والكرات السبع البلورية

Tintin #13

by Hergé

This is the Arabic edition of The Seven Crystal Balls ( Les Sept Boules de Cristal ), the thirteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

Young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and his friend Captain Haddock spend an evening at the music hall. There, they witness the performance of a clairvoyant, Madame Yamilah, who predicts the illness of one of the Sanders-Hardiman expedition members, who recently returned from an archaeological expedition to the Andes mountains. They also view the act of a knife thrower whom Tintin recognises as General Alcazar, former President of San Theodoros. Meeting him backstage, Alcazar introduces them to his Indio assistant, Chiquito, and learn that he was deposed (once again) by his rival General Tapioca.

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Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics

62 pages

First published April 1, 1948

About the author

Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist.
His best known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin comic book series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, leaving the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure Tintin and Alph-Art unfinished. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe.

"Hergé" is the pseudonym of George Remí, making a game with the initials of his name inverted. Throughout the evolution of his star character, Tintin, we can see the progress of this author: from the first titles marked by the ultraconservative doctrine of the director of the newspaper Le Petit Vingtième, to the breaking of conventions embodied from The Blue Lotus , as well as the evolution of the society of his time. The research carried out by Hergé to historically contextualize his Adventures, as well as his implicit social criticism, have made Tintin a masterpiece of the 20th century.

Series on Goodreads:
* The Adventures of Tintin
* Quick & Flupke
* The adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko

Reviews

[Dream.M · Rating 4 out of 5]

پروفسور رو دزدیدن، بریم پرو دنبالش (^_^;)))

[Kellyn Roth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love how Captain Haddock is trying to be a gentleman in this book with his monocle.

[Mohammed Arabey · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great combination of Myth, Mystery, Thriller and hilarity.. Even hint of Horror.
And it's the second story that will have a direct sequel.. But this time it ends with a cliffhanger..

[Piyangie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Seven Crystal Balls is one of my favourites in the Tintin series. And I do believe it is one of the best in the series as well. The concept is very interesting. A curse is visited upon seven members of a Peruvian archeological expedition who have brought with them an Inca mummy; one by one every member falls into a Coma, puzzling the investigators. Have these seven victims incurred the wrath of Incan gods for disturbing the tomb of Rascar Capac? Or is there any other sinister hand in operation?

The mystery draws Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Professor Calculus into the investigation in which Calculus gets kidnapped. The investigation leads all the clues to Peru and Tintin and Captain Haddock must journey to Peru both to rescue Professor and to solve the mystery and possibly find a cure for the seven victims. Part one of the adventure ends here and it'll continue into the next one in the series - Prisoners of the Sun .

There is a good mystery and suspense blended with myth and supernatural. Herge has created an eerie atmosphere giving the story a darker colour. But a bit of drama here and there and the absurdities of the detective duo made lighten the overall tone.

It was a very interesting read, and although the story is not at an end and continues into another installment, this in itself is a well written complete story.

[Harish Challapalli · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is more interesting episode than many other of the series!! The plot begins very interestingly and gets tightened as it progresses!!

No need to mention that tin tin is always a page turner and this is no exception!! U will get ur eyes glued to the book til u complete!!

I always wish I have a dog like snowy!! And this episode strengthens it!!

A wonderful detective in tin tin can be seen in this episode!!

[Czarny Pies · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hergé est sans doute l'ambassadeur culturelle du genie francais qui a eu le plus de success au cours du dernier siècle.

Heureuse le siècle actuelle commence tres bien avec un tres beaux releve dans le domaine de la bande-dessinée française. Entre autres, il faut signaler Julie Maroh (Le bleu est une couleur chaude) et Marjane Satrapis (Persepolis)

[Ehsan'Shokraie' · Rating 4 out of 5]

هفت گوی بلوری اوج مهارت هرژه در ترکیب افسانه و واقعیت است..داستانی جنایی و جذاب..

[George K. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Αυτό είναι το πρώτο μέρος μιας απολαυστικής ιστορίας, που ολοκληρώνεται στον επόμενο τόμο με τον τίτλο "Ο Ναός του Ήλιου". Δράση, τρελά σκηνικά, χιούμορ, ωραίο σκίτσο... όλα τα καλούδια που προσφέρει απλόχερα ο Ερζέ με τις ιστορίες του Τεντέν, είναι και εδώ. Αν μη τι άλλο, οι ιστορίες με πρωταγωνιστή τον φοβερό Τεντέν αποτελούν εγγύηση αναγνωστικής απόλαυσης και ψυχαγωγίας.

[Kavita · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Seven Crystal Balls is the first part of yet another two-part adventure. The story starts off with the return of seven European explorers who are part of an archaeological expedition that discovered the tomb of an Inca priest. A clairvoyant predicts the illness of one of the members, but soon enough ALL of them fall ill and into a deep sleep. Fragments of a crystal ball are found near each inert body. But it is when Professor Calculus is kidnapped that Tintin gets involved.

This time the journey takes the whole gang to Peru, yayyy! It turns out that the explorers have to be punished for desecrating the Inca tomb and the last descendent of the tribe is on their trail. It's such an outdated European trope but it's great fun, so that's that. This plot was inspired by the rumours surrounding the then fresh unearthing of Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt by Carter.

I felt that the characters are slowly developing but also there are minor changes such as Snowy no longer taking centre stage, a move that I think is for the better. Captain Haddock is no longer a lush but a dapper gentleman in a suit and a monocle to match. It was the most hilarious part of the book to see the Captain try to act the aristocrat. Tintin himself does not seem to have much of a character arc throughout the series and remains the same. My favourites, Thomson and Thompson, make an appearance but are not central to the story. General Alcazar (remember San Theodoros from The Broken Ear?) also shows up!

The action is all set in Belgium so far, but I look forward to the second part, set in Peru.

[Hákon Gunnarsson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tintin was one of the comic book heroes of my childhood. I'm going to read my way through the series again as I listen to a radio program about him, and his creator, Hergé. Books thirteen, The Seven Crystal Balls, and book fourteen, Prisoners of the Sun, are a single story line just as the two books that precede them. Captain Haddock is now the owner of country estate, and Tintin, along with his ever faithful Snowy, goes to visit him. Soon enough the two have got themselves deep into a mystery that involves men that are newly arrived back home after a expedition to South America fall into coma, and next to each victim fragments of a shattered crystal ball can be found.

In some sense Hergé seems to have realised just how good the previous pair had been so he uses the same basic form for The Seven Crystal Balls and its sequel as he had used before with the two books about Red Rackham's treasure. The Seven Crystal Balls, like Red Rackham's Treasure, is a mystery that takes place in Belgium, and then the story continues in Prisoners of the Sun which is more of an adventure, like The Secret of the Unicorn, where they go and explore the world. Perhaps the main difference is that The Seven Crystal Balls does have a little bit of a horror undertone which Red Rackham's Treasure doesn't have. Still the basic set up is the same.

The main problem with it is that this two book story never really reaches quite as high as the two book story that preceded it. For example, the jokes seem to be a little farther between, even though Captain Haddock as a this newly rich socialite with a monocle is actually a wonderfully far away from what he usually is, and that is seriously funny. It just doesn't seem quite as good as before. Still it is a well written, and illustrated story. At the centre of this you could see influences from the stories that were told of the curse of the pharaohs, even though in this story the curse come from a Inca mummy. Even though it may never really reach as high as Red Rackham's Treasure, The Seven Crystal Balls is still a good Tintin book. The main cast is in fine form, and it is a well written mystery.

[Settare · Rating 5 out of 5]

The text below is included in ALL of my reviews for the Tintin series. If you've already read it, please proceed to the last part of the review.
I am a lifelong fan of Tintin and Hergé. Tintin is the earliest memory I have of being exposed to books and stories, my dad started to read Tintin to me when I was less than three years old and continued to do so until I learned to read on my own. I have loved these stories my whole life, and I know all of them by heart, in Persian, in English, and in French.

But, as a devout fan, I think it's time to do the hard but right thing: confess that these books are far from perfect. They are full of stereotypes, they are racist, whitewashed, colonialist, orientalist, and many other problematic "ists" for the modern reader. Not to mention a complete lack of female characters in the entire franchise.
The only reoccurring woman, Bianca Castafiore, is not even a good character, she's a mocking parody of the poor dear Maria Callas that Hergé hated. Other women present are her maid Irma (in approximately 20 frames), Alcazar's wife, a seer, some landladies, and some other very minor characters that play no important role. Anyway.

In the past few years, I've struggled to decide how I feel about these books. Will I dismiss them? Consider "the time they were written in" and excuse them? Love them in secret? Start disliking them? I don't know. So far I haven't reached a fixed decision, but I will say this:
I am aware that these books are problematic. I acknowledge that. I don't stand for the message of some of these books. At the same time, I won't dismiss or hide my love for them because they were an integral part of my growing up, and they have shaped some of my fondest memories, fantasies, and games. I still love the adventures of Tintin very much. And I have a soft spot for my dear old Captain Haddock, stupid and ridiculous as he is.


Le 7 boules de crystal is one of my absolute favorites. Colonialist, I admit, but it's so full of mystery and thrill and allure that I can't help but giving it a full rating.

[Jefi Sevilay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Son iki cilttir hikayeler 2-2 gidiyor. Olsun daha güzel. 7 Kristal Küre bence diğerlerine göre ayakları daha yere basan, işin komedi ya da absürtlük kısmının minimuma indiği ancak heyecan ve merak unsurlarının daha ön planda olduğu bir ciltti. Hoşuma gitti.

Yalnız sayımıza devam ediyoruz. 13 cilt ve tek bir kadın karakter yok.

[Philippe Malzieu · Rating 4 out of 5]

The philosoph Michel Serres is a great tintinophil. He noted that the Hergé's drawing was extremely precise (the famous "ligne claire"), except the head of Tintin. For him, it was a reason of success. With an outlined face, everyone is able to identify with him. Thus Tintin is you, Tintin is me.

Nevertheless, I am not a fan. History and drawing are perfect. But I do not identify myself in Tintin. I don't recognize me in this stylised head.

My hero of cartoon is a true romantic hero: Corto Maltese. Pratt was influenced by the American comics, and especially Milton Caniff. The drawing is done with brush, we are far from the "ligne claire". I saw the drawings of his first album 'Salted sea balad". It is an incredible work of scraping, joining and angry brushstroke.

But I advise you his most esoteric album "Fable of Venice". In the secrête courses of this enigmatic city, you will seek the clavicle of Solomon (Pratt was franc-maçon). Corto Maltese will give you the significance of each letter of Hebrew alphabet. You will read Borges differently and you will find the exit of the labyrinth.

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Tintin stories for anyone who has read them and understands their history can't be viewed as anything other than groundbreaking. The beginnings of these stories have been around as long as the Lord of the Rings, the illustration and environments in the Tintin books are accurate and extremely detailed. Anyone who has spent even a little time exploring Herge (Georges Remi) can see the painstaking research and adversity he worked through to compose the world around Tintin. His ideas were ahead of his time (Exploring the moon, Industrialization, South American political conflict, modern slave trade, extraterrestrial life) and he made certain every detail for every object would be realistic (after the third book at least). Herge's work can certainly be cited as an influence for any modern day graphic novel or comic book.

[E8RaH!M · Rating 5 out of 5]

خودم نسلِ در خیابان بازی کردن تا بوق سگ و پرسه زدن در خیابانهای محله تا جایی که دوستی، همسایه‌ای یا رهگذر آشنایی پیغام مامان را میرساند که به ابراهیم بگید بیاد خونه برای شام. یا صدایی از دور از زیر تک چراغ سالم محله‌مان به گوش میرسید و گوش به گوش رسانده میشد که:
«ابرام! ابی! مامانت صدات میزنه»
با تنی عرق کرده بر میگشتم و عضلاتی که در کودکی هیچ وقت رنگ اسید لاکتیک را به خود ندیدند را به رختخوابی که روبروی تلویزیون پهن میشد میسپردم.
هیچ وقت نوار قصه نداشتم، هیچ وقت کتاب داستان یا مجموعه های کمیک به دست نگرفتم. شاید باورش سخت باشد اما قصه شب بچه‌ها با موسیقی گنجشک لالایش را تنها یکبار گوش دادم، آن هم فقط موسیقی‌اش را.
حقیقت مهد کودک هم نرفتم.😋
روح کوچکم (یا بزرگم) از تن‌تن و اسپایدرمن و سوپرمن و غیره چیزی نمیدانست. به جایش سرپایی‌های خانه را کش میرفتیم و کارت‌های بازی را در فاصله‌ای دور می‌چیدیم و با دمپایی نشانه می‌رفتیم. از دیوار باغ سیب روبروی خانه بالا می‌رفتیم و قبل از رسیدن سگِ باغبان با پیراهنی پر از سیب‌های سبز و نارس به محیط امن اینطرف دیوار برمی‌گشتیم.
حالا پس از چهل سال دارم این قصه‌ها و داستان‌ها و کمیک‌ها را برای پسرم می‌خوانم.
شبی ده-دوازده صفحه را با تقلید صداهای متفاوت شخصیت‌ها برایش می‌خوانم تا خوابش ببرد.
نمی‌دانم پسرم حسرت آن شور خیابانی، آن هفت‌سنگ بازی‌ها، تسمه بازی، استپ هوایی و خر پلیس و و و را باید داشته باشد یا من حسرت نداشتن آنچه شرحش قبلتر رفت را باید به دل بنشانم.

خلاصه حس عجیبی‌ست.
بگذریم…
این کتاب قسمت تن‌تن را پسرم خیلی دوست دارد بعلاوه‌ی ادامه‌ی داستان در کتاب «معبد خورشید» .
گیر دادن به شانس‌های تن‌تن و رهیدن‌هایش از مرگ را هم میگذارم پای وسواس بزرگسالی خودم.

باقی بقای دوستان

[Sammy · Rating 4 out of 5]

My review, as published in Tintin Books:


"The Seven Crystal Balls" is a wonderfully atmospheric album, in which fears of the supernatural meld perfectly with the scientific discoveries of the time. Anyone who grew up with the animated TV series will probably recall this one in great detail, as there is so much good material here: particularly notable is the agonising wait in Tarragon's manor, and the marvelous frame of the seven victims waking up on cue in their hospital beds, and screaming.

Although Herge was remaining stoically apolitical, his series had acquired a wealth of recurring characters to enrich the story, and many of them - Thompson & Thomson, Bianca Castafiore, Nestor, General Alcazar, as well as the newcomer Cuthbert Calculus - appear here. There's some very good character work for a wide variety of the cast - including a welcome return for General Alcazar - and it's pleasant how quickly we care for Calculus. His disappearance, and Haddock's subsequent concern, are affecting even though we only met him in the last album! Among other evolutions in the series, Tintin appears to have left his Brussels flat in favour of living with Haddock at Marlinspike Hall. Their relationship with Calculus has also quickly deepened, as evidenced by Haddock's severe depression when the professor goes missing. Like Haddock before him, Calculus' popularity was a surprise for the artist - but a surprise he took in his stride.

At the same time, it is worth mentioning that a lot of time is spent on set-up. Very little actually happens for most of this album. This is partly a result of Herge's required output in the era, and partly because he himself was so fascinated by creating realism in his settings, characters and costumes, that he devoted himself to every scene and every supporting character. It's very clearly only the start of the story (which is why most adaptations take us to South America and the plot of [book:Prisoners of the Sun|96428 quite quickly).

However, what we have here is both creepy and amusing, and clearly demonstrate the mastery of his form which would soon lead Herge to start playing around with the established formula. I'd probably give it a high three-and-a-half stars, but I'm upgrading it to four for the sake of this review.

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the first Tintin book I ever read, and I was instantly hooked. They have a very Indiana Jones feel to them (though I guess I should say the Indiana Jones movies have a very Tintin feel to them because Tintin was first). There’s action, adventure, mystery, and of course, plenty of humor. I love all the characters, and Snowy is just the cutest.

This is one of my favorites in the series. The storyline is great, and it has many funny moments. Thompson and Thomson are the perfect straight men, and I love Captain Haddock’s creative name calling. It’s also really interesting to see Tintin piece the crime together. He’s almost Sherlockian in his methods. He notices everything.

I also like seeing cameos from other characters in this one, especially Bianca Castafiore. That off-key opera singer turns up in the weirdest places!

[Maria Carmo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very funny and exciting, this new adventure which ends as the start of the next one, which will take place in Peru... But first, in this book the curses and maledictions of Indian Kings turned to mummies, and the fact the "the bad guys" kidnapped Mr. Tournesol, spices up this whole book and lays the ground for the next one.

Maria Carmo,

Lisbon 15 January 2015.

[Jazzy Lemon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seven archeologists from the same expedition to Peru are in peril and it's up to Tintin and friends to solve the mysterious case! Part one.
Part two can be found in Prisoners of the Sun.

[Alireza · Rating 4 out of 5]

تن تن ماجراجو بازمیگردد! اینبار با داستانی به همان جذابیت "راز کشتی اسب شاخ دار" و "گنج راکهام سرخپوش" و به همین سبک و سیاق در دو قسمت جدا. یکی "هفت گوی بلوری" که در ماجراهای آن پروفسور کلکولس نازنین ربوده میشود و ادامه ش در "زندانی های معبد خورشید"

[Farhana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ah, the story line is one of the best so far, well balanced, neat & nearly perfect O:)
Hergé got better in creating a sense of surprise & suspense in between two different frames :D Cannot help looking forward to the next story!

[Metin Yılmaz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ten tenin maceraları devam ediyor. Güneş Mabedi ile devam edecek olan bu macerada klasik Ten Ten, Milu ve kaptanı okumak eğlenceli. Keşke Alfa yayınları tüm maceraları tek bir ciltte toplasa ve güzel bir şekilde basımını yapsa bizler için.

[Niloo N · Rating 4 out of 5]

خــــــب! این یکی واقعا خوب بود ^___^

[Fatma Mustafa]

لا بأس بقليل من النوستالجيا للقراءات الأولى جدا ❤❤

[Elessar · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5/5

En Las 7 bolas de cristal, Hergé cuenta una historia que no termina de cerrarse, dando pie a una continuación, El templo del sol. Este formato díptico ya lo usó en ocasiones anteriores. Funciona, pero te hace comparar entre los cómics que lo conforman, o te impide entender la historia por separado, pese a que cada álbum suele cerrarse bastante bien dentro de las posibilidades.

En este libro el detallismo de los fondos ha aumentado considerablemente. Cada viñeta está compuesta de muchos elementos, que en anteriores números solían no dibujarse o definirse tanto. No es algo en absoluto malo. Sin embargo, en este caso la trama me ha parecido un poco extraña y la sucesión de los acontecimientos no muy clara. Reaparecen personajes de cómics muy anteriores con un papel secundario e innecesario, al menos por el momento. Aún así, es un cómic bueno, cuya lectura no desmerece.

[Vicente Ribes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Divertida aventura donde Tintin y Haddock deberán resolver el misterio de unas extrañas bolas dd cristal flotantes que han atacado y dejado en estado comatoso a siete científicos aue descubrieron una tumba inca. Poco a poco la cosa se embarullara y Tornasol acabara secuestrado con lo que nuestros heroes deberan ir a buscarlo en el siguiente tomo que continua la historia: el templo del sol.

[Lili P · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very classic. Also one of the first Tintin I read, so very special.

[Nadja · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hat mir von den bisherigen Tim und Struppi Hörspielen am wenigsten gut gefallen. Tim ist aber schon ein schlauer Fuchs.

[Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This might sound ridiculous to quite a few people reading this review, but I came around to reading this Tintin story as a consequence of my interest in UFO phenomena. Until the 1930s, ball lighting were mysterious "lights in the sky" which meteorologists disputed the existence of. General scientific consensus back then viewed ball lightning with the same skepticism that most scientists today aim at hypothetical plasma vortices theorised by UFOlogists such as Jenny Randles as responsible for those crop circles that are particularly difficult to explain as man-made. I then remembered that ball lightning not only plays an important role in this Tintin story, but also makes an appearance on the very cover art.

Then I noticed that the two-parter of "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "Prisoners of the Sun" were among the few Tintin stories I had not read until now, for some reason. Reading them soon after "The Broken Ear" was an interesting experience. Both revolve around archaeological artifacts being taken from South America to Western Europe with grave consequences for the Westerners as the indigenous peoples of the America do not take lightly to having their sacred objects placed in museums on the other side of the planet. Yet the later two-parter feels like an immense improvement over "The Broken Ear". This is in no small part a consequence of Hergé's decision to space out the story over two volumes. As a result, he doesn't have to move from one action scene or plot twist from the other with reckless abandon but can instead develop each subplot in more depth and give the individual characters more interesting things to do.

Speaking of the supporting cast, I just realised that another reason "Crystal Balls" is much more interesting than "The Broken Ear" is that in the meantime Tintin has acquired all the familiar supporting characters like Captain Haddock, Professor Tournesol, Dupond & Dupont, Madame Castafiore etc. Let's face it, on his own Tintin is a fairly boring character, but as soon as the aforementioned cast of eccentrics become regular fixtures of the series Hergé now gets a lot of humour out of Tintin often being the "only sane man" in the cast.

Another edge over "Broken Ear" is that being a two-parter, Hergé can now in each of the two halves of "Crystal Balls"/"Prisoners" focus more on getting a particular genre right. I have as an adult become quite the fan of 1920s/1930s detective novels such as Georges Siménon's Inspector Maigret and Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels, and "Seven Crystal Balls" for the most part plays like a quite satisfying example of that form. The maybe-magic, maybe-mundane element of supernatural horror that Hergé uses here, in the form of the curse surrounding a mummified Inca king brought to Europe, is also used effectively in the context of an otherwise realistic detective story by Hergé. This is where the ball lightning comes into play, as it figures into the Inca prophecy at the heart of the story and culminates in a scene modelled on a real life incident here in Denmark in 1939 that cast aside all doubt surrounding the existence of ball lightning where a ball lightning enters the private laboratory of a prominent scientist during a thunderstorm and wreaks much havoc. That scene is disturbing to this day especially for a story aimed at children, and must have been even more so when ball lightning had been the stuff of legend until recently.

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another first part of a two part comic in which scientists seem to be struck by some sort of curse which hangs together with an excavation of Inca burials, all who were involved get struck by some disease and goes into mental overload, plainly bonkers.
Tintin, Haddock and professor Calculus get involved and the professor gets kidnapped and Tintin & Haddock go in pursuit to save his life.
This comic had more than a little aid of a certain Edgar Jacobs, whose ligne claire series Mortimer & Blake itself became a classic series. It clearly shows in the better script that he and Herge created for this two episodes. It feels more grounded and tight like a mystery than the previous co-writers Herge employed.