Micromegas And Other Stories: Newly Translated and Annotated - Softcover

 
9781847493798: Micromegas And Other Stories: Newly Translated and Annotated
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847493793 ISBN 13: 9781847493798
Verlag: Alma Books, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a heretical tract. On Saturn he befriends the local secretary of the Academy of Sciences – a comparative dwarf, being only two kilometres high – and the two decide to travel to earth together, where they will make startling discoveries about human nature.

At once a story-length Bildungsroman and a philosophical tale, ‘Micromegas’ is a classic Enlightenment text, and is accompanied in this volume by thirteen other pieces – including ‘Plato’s Dream’ and ‘Memnon’ – all in a new translation by acclaimed French specialist Douglas Parmée.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Haydn is Professor Emeritus in the Department of French at Bristol University and author of 'To Homer Through Pope', published by Bristol Classical Press.

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Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a heretical tract. On Saturn he befriends the local secretary of the Academy of Sciences – a comparative dwarf, being only two kilometres high – and the two decide to travel to earth together, where they will make startling discoveries about human nature.

At once a story-length Bildungsroman and a philosophical tale, ‘Micromegas’ is a classic Enlightenment text, and is accompanied in this volume by thirteen other pieces – including ‘Plato’s Dream’ and ‘Memnon’ – all in a new translation by acclaimed French specialist Douglas Parmée.

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Verlag
Alma Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847493793
ISBN 13 
9781847493798
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Anzahl der Seiten
160
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