неизвестные классики
08:26 | 08-12-2009 | Literature | No Comments
вышел по ссылке на неизвестный роман Жюля Верна — наод ли говорить, что зачитывался его книгами в детстве, постоянно оказываясь то на воздушном шаре, то глубоко под водой, то истертым морской солью неразборчивым посланием в бутылке.
что ж, корни его общеизвестного научного оптимизма стали теперь еще понятнее:
Written in 1863 but first published only in 1994, about a young man who lives in a technologically advanced, but culturally backwards future. Often referred to as Verne’s lost novel, the work, set in August 1960, paints a grim, dystopian view of the future. Many of Verne’s predictions are remarkably on target.
прийдется теперь прочитать, что уж.
так же странно, но буквально недавно читал и другую его неизвестную мне доселе работу:
“An Antarctic Mystery” (French: “Le Sphinx des glaces”), also known also as “The Sphinx of the Ice Fields”, is an 1897, two-volume novel by Jules Verne and is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” which was published in 1838.
все великие авторы, право, больны одной и той же болезнью:
March 22d. The darkness had materially increased, relieved only by the glare of the water thrown back from the white curtain before us. Many gigantic and pallidly white birds flew continuously now from beyond the veil, and their scream was the eternal Tekeli-li! as they retreated from our vision. Hereupon Nu-Nu stirred in the bottom of the boat; but upon touching him we found his spirit departed. And now we rushed into the embraces of the cataract, where a chasm threw itself open to receive us. But there arose in our pathway a shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men. And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness of the snow.