Mr. Tot Aĉetas Mil Okulojn

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Mr. Tot Buys a Thousand Eyes
Author	Jean Forge
Original title	Mr. Tot aĉetas mil okulojn
Country	Germany; reprinted in Helsinki, Finland
Language	Esperanto
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel
Publication date	1931, 1973
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	242 pp
ISBN	NA

Mr. Tot aĉetas mil okulojn (Mr. Tot buys a thousand eyes) is the third novel originally written in Esperanto by Jean Forge. It appeared in 1931. It is a fantasy adventure novel. However the absolute artistry of the characterizaions, the pure literary language, and the well-structuredness of the novel raise it high above the mass of novels of its type. In this novel the erstwhile excessive use of suffixes, most noticeable in his previous work Saltego trans Jarmiloj, disappears.

A detective novel, but not a hair raising bloody fantasy. It is so modern, so richly saturated with psychological undertones and pulsating life, that its value greatly exceeds the standards that one generally has for novels of its genre.^[1]

The novel is included in William Auld's Basic Esperanto Reading List^[2]

In 1960, Fritz Lang used the novel as a basis for his last film The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse.