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Tomorrow's Eve (häftad, eng)
Take one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his life; add an English aristocrat hopelessly consumed wi...
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Take one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his life; add an English aristocrat hopelessly consumed with a selfish and spiritually bankrupt woman; stir together with a Faustian pact to create the perfect woman--and voilà! Tomorrow''s Eve is served.
Robert Martin Adams''s graceful translation is the first to bring to English readers this captivating fable of a Thomas Edison-like inventor and his creation, the radiant and tragic android Hadaly.
Adams''s introduction sketches the uncompromising idealism of the proud but penurious aristocrat Jean Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste, Count Villiers de l''Isle-Adam, a friend and admired colleague of Charles Baudelaire, Stèphane Mallarmé, and Richard Wagner.
Villiers dazzles us with a gallery of electronic wonders while unsettling us with the implications of his (and our) increasingly mechanized and mechanical society.
A witty and acerbic tale in which human nature, spiritual values, and scientific possibilities collide, Tomorrow''s Eve retains an enduring freshness and edge.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 248 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | University of Illinois Press |
Utgivningsdatum | 2000-11-30 |
ISBN | 9780252069550 |
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- Häftad, 248, Engelska, University of Illinois Press, 2000-11-30, 9780252069550
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 248
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag University of Illinois Press
- Utgivningsdatum 2000-11-30
- ISBN 9780252069550