The contents had initially appealed to me quite:
Hector is a young psychologist who, in order to finally be able to understand what it is that can be happy or unhappy his patients, a trip around the world is doing his impressions collected and so actually the "secret" of happiness on the track comes.
What he ultimately recognizes as "building blocks" for Happiness, include health, friends satisfaction, absence of major financial problems ...
So far so good, but must operate significant studies around the world an educated psychologist or even a "normal" person with a reasonably common sense and / or life experience to discover this surely well-known truisms?
Of course, a traditional book, each film some "hanger", whose meaning you should not always questioning and if the story is well implemented and populated with interesting and / or life-like figures, I do not do that necessarily, but unfortunately the Potagonist Hector a completely meaningless Man Without Qualities, of nothing more than the projection of the author remains recognizable for its equally childishly naive as pedantic and dry observations and teachings.
These are then also summarized after each chapter, for all those who should still not have understood ...
So could I have Hector throughout the history strange, not to mention the various minor characters, the only objects for Hector's or the author's stay even more considerations and not for the story any further significance let alone remain in some form in his mind.
For this me, the style has become increasingly irritated with his weird mix of childlike naivety and precocious instruction will while reading.
That such a style basically is not necessarily my cup of tea, may be my personal problem, but while he was in childish protagonists as in "Le petit prince" or "Le petit Nicolas" at least fit somehow, is a style à la "Le petit Hector "with an adult who to a grown man and a trained psychologist is still, not only inappropriate, but simply silly.
It could well be quite charming of her idea forth the story, but the way, as it is written, has me unfortunately did not like the reasons mentioned.
Unfortunately we have seen in almost every sentence that the author himself psychologist and not primarily a writer.
Instead of entertaining narrative with philosophical and psychological undertones is "Le Voyage d'Hector" therefore, unfortunately, a pedantic put forward "psychology introduction for first graders" become.
For those who are looking for well-written, entertaining literature, I can not recommend this book therefore.
However, if you "only" want to brush up on his French, with this book - as with the entire Reclam-language texts - well advised, because it is held in language simple and all words which do not belong to the basic vocabulary, directly in the text as footnotes to the relevant Pages are translated and partly also explained in detail.
