Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam(7 November 1838–19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer.
Villiers' works, in the romantic style, are often fantastic in plot and filled with mystery and horror. Important among them are the drama Axel (1890), the novel L'Ève future ("Tomorrow's Eve") (1886), and the short-story collection, Contes cruels (1883, tr. Sardonic Tales, 1927). Contes cruels is regarded as an important collection of horror stories. [3] L'Ève future greatly helped to popularize the term "Android" (Androïde in French, the character is named "Andréide").
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 voil! "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, Stphane Mallarm, 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.
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Tomorrow's Eve 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
首先,等瞭好多年的這本書終於齣中文版瞭,不管翻譯怎麼樣,反正是看著瞭,恭喜一下。碰巧今年機器工人的輿論甚囂塵上,不知道是不是巧閤呢。 本書是日本動漫《攻殼機動隊》的原型所在,更是滿街的手機程序,“安卓”的原型,當然瞭,這都是噱頭,要是沒有這麼兩個還算說得過...
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Tomorrow's Eve 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載