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Seeing the Invisible: A Visual History of the Marvel-Scientific Movement (1909-1930).
Champ Vallon
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| N° d'inventaire | 29903 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 384 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791026711889 |
At the end of the 19th century, the discovery of X-rays and radium, as well as speculation about the photography of thought and life on Mars, stirred public opinion. It was in this context that a unique literary school emerged in France: the marvelous-scientific movement. Maurice Renard, the leader, Guy de Téramond, Octave Béliard, and Jean de La Hire imagined stories with vibrant covers, in which their heroes were telepaths, miniatures, or simply ambitious scholars.
Some suddenly find themselves capable of passing through matter, seeing in the dark, living underwater, while others witness a scene from the past, photograph auras, or travel by psychic force. For these authors, it is not a question of prophesying the distant future, but of giving a different reading of the present and these famous "imminent threats of the possible." Rediscovering this literary Atlantis today, diffused in the popular culture of its time, is to explore a blind spot in the history of French science fiction.
Some suddenly find themselves capable of passing through matter, seeing in the dark, living underwater, while others witness a scene from the past, photograph auras, or travel by psychic force. For these authors, it is not a question of prophesying the distant future, but of giving a different reading of the present and these famous "imminent threats of the possible." Rediscovering this literary Atlantis today, diffused in the popular culture of its time, is to explore a blind spot in the history of French science fiction.
Some suddenly find themselves capable of passing through matter, seeing in the dark, living underwater, while others witness a scene from the past, photograph auras, or travel by psychic force. For these authors, it is not a question of prophesying the distant future, but of giving a different reading of the present and these famous "imminent threats of the possible." Rediscovering this literary Atlantis today, diffused in the popular culture of its time, is to explore a blind spot in the history of French science fiction.