Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited - Couverture souple

Butler, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1617206172 ISBN 13 : 9781617206177

Editeur : SMK Books, 2015

Synopsis

Erewhon, set in a thinly disguised New Zealand, ended with the escape of its protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon. In the sequel, narrated by his son John. Higgs returns to Erewhon and meets his former lover Yram, who is now the mother of his son George. He discovers that he is now worshipped as "the Sunchild". He finds himself in danger from the villainous Professors Hanky and Panky, who are determined to protect Sunchildism from him. With George's help Higgs escapes from their clutches and returns to England.

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À propos de l'auteur

Samuel Butler was an English novelist, essayist, critic, and intellectual provocateur whose work challenged many of the settled assumptions of Victorian culture. Born in 1835, Butler was educated at Cambridge and spent several years in New Zealand before returning to England, where he developed into one of the most original and sceptical prose writers of his age. His fiction, criticism, notebooks, and essays reveal a mind deeply suspicious of inherited authority, especially in religion, family life, education, science, and social convention.Butler is best known for Erewhon, Erewhon Revisited, and the posthumously published novel The Way of All Flesh. His satire often works by calm inversion: he takes the familiar institutions of nineteenth-century society and rearranges them just enough to reveal their cruelty, illogic, or absurdity. In Erewhon, he anticipated later speculative fiction by using an invented society to examine machinery, morality, illness, crime, and institutional belief. In Erewhon Revisited, he sharpened his attack on religious myth-making and the social machinery that turns human error into sacred doctrine.Though Butler was not always fully appreciated during his lifetime, his reputation grew steadily after his death in 1902. Today he is recognised as a major Victorian satirist and an important precursor to modern dystopian fiction, philosophical fiction, and speculative social criticism. His work remains valuable not only for its wit, but for its independence of mind: Butler wrote against complacency, against pious certainty, and against the comfortable belief that existing institutions must be wise simply because they are old.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SMK Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1617206172
• ISBN 13: 9781617206177
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 374
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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