Tomorrow's EveUniversity of Illinois Press, 1982 - 222페이지 "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 voilà! 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, Stèphane Mallarmé, 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." --Descripción del editor. |
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... entire company to convulsions of helpless laughter . He was an anomaly among the bohemians , if only for his aristocratic pretensions , and another sort of anomaly in the aristocratic circles to which he had easy entrée , though ...
... entire company to convulsions of helpless laughter . He was an anomaly among the bohemians , if only for his aristocratic pretensions , and another sort of anomaly in the aristocratic circles to which he had easy entrée , though ...
xv 페이지
... entire existence on the outcome . Poe , with whom Villiers has sometimes been compared , is much more the Gothic spooker , drawing on the common properties of demonic possession , madness , and necrophilia to make our flesh crawl ...
... entire existence on the outcome . Poe , with whom Villiers has sometimes been compared , is much more the Gothic spooker , drawing on the common properties of demonic possession , madness , and necrophilia to make our flesh crawl ...
xvi 페이지
... entire opera into a closet . The developments of electric lighting and flash photography that he describes in Tomorrow's Eve are far in advance of what was possible when he wrote . The spark which races out into infinite space to ...
... entire opera into a closet . The developments of electric lighting and flash photography that he describes in Tomorrow's Eve are far in advance of what was possible when he wrote . The spark which races out into infinite space to ...
xxiii 페이지
... entire development , mingling spiritualism with a kind of sympathetic magic , there was literary prece- dent in the semi - occult fictions of Balzac ( Séraphita , Louis Lambert ) and in the quasi - scientific religiosity of Victor Hugo ...
... entire development , mingling spiritualism with a kind of sympathetic magic , there was literary prece- dent in the semi - occult fictions of Balzac ( Séraphita , Louis Lambert ) and in the quasi - scientific religiosity of Victor Hugo ...
xxiv 페이지
... entire novel out of balance . What experiences lay behind these Swiftian invectives against feminine arts ( so at variance with the lighter ironies of Baudelaire and Wilde ) we cannot know , but it is clear that Villiers , being like ...
... entire novel out of balance . What experiences lay behind these Swiftian invectives against feminine arts ( so at variance with the lighter ironies of Baudelaire and Wilde ) we cannot know , but it is clear that Villiers , being like ...
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Menlo Park | 7 |
Phonographs Papa | 8 |
The Lamentations of Edison | 9 |
Sowana | 11 |
A Summary Soliloquy | 13 |
Mysterious Sounds | 14 |
A Dispatch | 15 |
The Dreamer Touches a Dream Object | 17 |
Serious Sides of Light Adventures | 106 |
The Shadow of the Upas Tree | 110 |
Danse Macabre | 117 |
Exhumation | 119 |
Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense | 122 |
Dazzlement | 124 |
Hadaly | 127 |
First Appearance of the Machine in Humanity | 129 |
Retrospective | 19 |
Snapshots of World History | 21 |
Lord Ewald | 24 |
Alicia | 28 |
Shadows | 30 |
How Substance Changes with Form | 32 |
Analysis | 34 |
Hypothesis | 36 |
Dissection | 39 |
Confrontation | 44 |
Remonstrations | 47 |
The Pact | 51 |
White Magic | 53 |
Security Measures | 56 |
Apparition | 57 |
Preliminaries to a Miracle | 59 |
Amazement | 64 |
Excelsior | 65 |
Of the Swiftness of Scholars | 72 |
Time at a Stop | 74 |
Ambiguous Pleasantries | 78 |
Cosi Fan Tutte | 85 |
Chivalric Discourse | 86 |
The Trail Divides | 87 |
An Underground Eden | 89 |
Easy is the Descent into Avernus | 91 |
Enchantments | 92 |
Birdsongs | 93 |
God | 94 |
Electricity | 96 |
The Secret | 101 |
Miss Evelyn Habal | 103 |
Nothing New Under the Sun | 134 |
Walking | 139 |
The Eternal Female | 143 |
Equilibrium | 144 |
Something Striking | 147 |
I Am Black but Comely | 149 |
Flesh | 150 |
Rosy Mouth Pearly Teeth | 153 |
Urania | 155 |
The Eyes of the Spirit | 157 |
Physical Eyes | 159 |
Hair | 161 |
Epidermis | 162 |
And There Was Shadow | 167 |
Dinner with the Magician | 169 |
Suggestion | 172 |
The Price of Fame | 182 |
A Night of Eclipse | 187 |
The Androsphinx | 193 |
Figures in the Night | 194 |
Struggles with the Angel | 196 |
Angelic Aid | 198 |
Revolt | 201 |
Incantation | 202 |
Night Idyll | 203 |
Penseroso | 204 |
Expeditious Explanations | 208 |
Farewells | 216 |
Fate | 218 |
Villiers Epigraphs | 220 |
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able absolute Anderson Android Anny Anderson appearance artificial asked beauty charm creature Cylinder dark dear Edison doubt dream earth Edison replied electric electrician engineer Epidermis Evelyn Habal expression eyes face fact feel femur flesh flower forever gesture Giles Fletcher glance glass glittering going Hadaly's hand heart human ideal illusion imagine inductors instant laboratory light looked Lord Byron Lord Ewald lover magnetic Marceline Desbordes-Valmore marvelous Menlo Park mind Miss Alicia Clary Miss Clary Miss Evelyn Miss Hadaly murmured mysterious nature never night once pale passion perfume perhaps person phantom phonograph quicksilver radiant reality rings secret seemed sense shadow silence simply smile sort soul Sowana speak spirit strange suddenly talking tell there's thing Thomas Alva Edison thought thousand tomorrow Tomorrow's Eve touched turned understand veil Victor Hugo Villiers Villiers de l'Isle-Adam voice women word
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xvii 페이지 - In a final memorable sentence he asserted that the pope and the church "neither can be nor ought to be reconciled with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.
3 페이지 - Thus, the EDISON of the present work, his character, his dwelling, his language, and his theories, are and ought to be at least somewhat distinct from anything existing in reality. Let it be understood, then, that I interpret a modern legend to the best advantage of the work of Art-metaphysics that I have conceived; and that, in a word, the hero of this book is above all "The Sorcerer of Menlo Park," and so forth— and not the engineer, Mr.