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Line 2: [[File:Alchemaster_3015.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| "A culinary ignoramus would have spat out a Sewer Dragon's knilch at once. It tastes extraordinary -- like nothing else. Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes -- they'd sooner eat the same things all the time -- but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes. It's the same with the alchemist: nothing strange, novel or surprising can deter him. On the contrary, he goes looking for such things. Are you ready for the next course?"}} ''[[The Alchemaster's Apprentice]]'' is a fantasy novel by German author [[Walter Moers]], and the fifth book that takes place on the fictional continent of Zamonia (the previous four being ''[[The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear\|The Thirteen and A Half Lives of Captain Bluebear]]'', ''Ensel and Krete'', ''[[Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures]]'' and ''[[The City of Dreaming Books]]''). The story follows Echo, a Crat (which is basically a normal housecat, except for the facts that it can talk and has two livers) who, after his kindly owner dies, finds himself homeless and living on the streets in Malaisea, the sickest and unhealthiest town in all of Zamonia. Line 13: ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== The book provides examples of: ===~~ * [[Arc Words]]: "Nobody understands the Leathermice!" {{spoiler\|Not, as it turns out, even the Leathermice themselves.}} * [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Happens to Echo a couple of times as the result of some of Ghoolion's more "special" meals. During these scenes he also experiences [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]], as he quickly begins thinking like the creatures he's transformed into. Line 19: * [[Disney Death]]: A particularly shocking one comes when {{spoiler\|Echo, about halfway through the book, is led to believe that he's just ate his friend Theodore T. Theodore. Lucky that the wild fowl Ghoolion served him wasn't Theodore after all, but neither Echo nor the reader find out that Theodore is still alive until the very end of the story, where he re-enters the narrative just in time to play [[Deus Ex Machina]].}} * [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Echo. {{quote\| "I'm very partial to black humor, so you're welcome to poke fun at a poor little Crat with one paw in the grave. However, please forgive me for not laughing at this particular moment. The laugh stuck in my throat and I was so hungry I swallowed it."}} * [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Ghoolion swings between this and [[Affably Evil]]; he's genuinely charming, but it's impossible to tell how much of it is an act to manipulate Echo and how much of it is heartfelt. * [[Food Porn]]: Ghoolion is an impossibly good cook, and even if some of the food sounds weird to us non-gourmets (see page quote), it's lovingly described and the taste sensations meticulously detailed. Line 36: [[Category:The Alchemaster's Apprentice]] [[Category:Literature]] [[Category:German Literature]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Alchemaster's Apprentice, The}}