In ‘Many Happy Returns’ the Prisoner
wakes to find The Village deserted. He sets about escaping The Village by building
a sea-going raft, and setting off on a voyage into the unknown. Because he
doesn’t know where he is sailing from, he doesn’t know where he is sailing to!
However, the Prisoner does eventually make it home in London
after an arduous journey. But because that’s not good enough for the Prisoner, seeing
as he still has questions he needs answers to, he sets on a journey of
discovery to find The Village, and ends up back where he started! Having come full circle. It seems to
me that ‘Many Happy Returns,’ apart from being a story in its own right within ‘the
Prisoner,’ also encompasses the whole ethos of ‘the Prisoner’ compressed into
one episode.
A life time fan and Prisonerologist of the 1960's series 'the Prisoner', a leading authority on the subject, a short story writer, and now Prisoner novelist.
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Wednesday 27 August 2014
A Circle Within A Circle
'The
Prisoner' is a vicious circle. As a man who having resigned is abducted to The
Village. He is put through a number of tests, and having survived the ultimate
test, is then given the opportunity to finally meet Number 1. After that
meeting there is a violent revolution, the Village is evacuated and in the
mayhem of that evacuation, the Prisoner escapes and eventually returns to his
home in London. Effectively ending
up back where he started!
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Well observed, David. I'd like to hint to this piece of text about Anthony Skene's trilogy within The Prisoner written by Michael Brüne (English). Your readers may want to take a look at it. - BCNU!
ReplyDeleteHello Arno,
DeletePleased you like it. I'm sure my readers will enjoy reading Michael's article on Anthony Skene's trilogy within 'the Prisoner.'
Here is a link to Michael's artilce.
http://www.match-cut.de/tho/tallyho57.htm
And in English
http://www.match-cut.de/yrfile/Skene-Trilogy-E.pdf
Very best regards
David
BCNU
Oh damnit. I forgot to link to it. Thanks David! - BCNU!
ReplyDeleteHello Arno,
DeleteMy pleasure. I saw that you had, so I added the two links for you.
Very best regards
David
BCNU