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Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655)

Autor/a de Voyages to the Moon and the Sun

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(eng) Please note : The "Voyage to the Moon" and "Voyage to the Sun" are separate works.

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Obres de Cyrano de Bergerac

Voyages to the Moon and the Sun (1657) 290 exemplars
Viatge a la lluna (1657) 271 exemplars
Resa till solen (1662) 37 exemplars
Libertins du XVIIe siècle, tome 1 (1998) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Il pedante gabbato (1654) 5 exemplars
La mort d'Agrippine (1995) 4 exemplars
Oeuvres diverses 4 exemplars
O Outro Mundo (2014) 2 exemplars

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Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de
Data de naixement
1619-03-06
Data de defunció
1655-07-28
Lloc d'enterrament
Sannois, France
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
France
Lloc de naixement
Paris, France
Lloc de defunció
Sannois, France
Llocs de residència
Paris, France
Professions
playwright
soldier
writer
satirist
Biografia breu
Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, the real person -- not the fictional character -- was a French writer and freethinker born in Paris to a family of minor nobility. After his early education in the country, he returned to Paris, and attended the college de Dormans-Beauvais in the Latin Quarter. At age of 19, he joined the army, serving in the campaigns of 1639 and 1640 and winning renown as a duellist. He then left the military, returned to Paris, and wrote several daring and innovative works that satirized the customs of the first half of the 17th century. His The States and Empires of the Moon and the Sun (aka Voyage to the Moon and Voyage to the Sun) are among the first science fiction novels and inspired many other writers, including Voltaire, Swift, and Poe. However, Cyrano is still best known today for having inspired Edmond Rostand's romantic drama "Cyrano de Bergerac," which deviates from his real life in many regards. Since the 1970s, there has been a revival of interest in and studies of Cyrano and his work, including theses, articles, biographies, and essays.
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Please note : The "Voyage to the Moon" and "Voyage to the Sun" are separate works.

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A different translation, of the same story (Voyages to the Moon and the Sun) but with a few illustrations from an earlier publication, and without the Voyage to the Sun. Just as fun, but slightly harder to read (than the excellent Folio Society edition) with the occasional OCR misprint, but made up by excellent footnotes and biography.
 
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AChild | Hi ha 13 ressenyes més | May 4, 2022 |
Very glad to have read this novel, so full of imagination, humour, and suggestions. I was struck by the similarity to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach (Perhaps this letter comparison was partially influenced by the Quentin Blake illustrations).
I loved the way Cyrano incorporated classical myths, biblical figures, scientific and philosophical ideas. Indeed, Descartes has the last word in the novel; and Cyrano's depiction of Earthrise as seen from the moon is inspiring.
Much of the narrative is in the form of discourses between the hero and the beings he meets, and yet the plot follows a smooth transition from the earth, to the moon, to the earth, to the sun.
I was pleased to read somewhere that this is Quentin Blake's favourite story he has illustrated. I would have liked to find some of teh illustrations in colour, but these are all in B&W.
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AChild | Hi ha 8 ressenyes més | May 4, 2022 |

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Membres
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Popularitat
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Valoració
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Ressenyes
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ISBN
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Llengües
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Preferit
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