The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction : Stepchildren of Voltaire (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

Lyau, Bradford/ Palumbo, Donald E. (EDT)/ Sullivan III, C.W. (EDT)

McFarland & Co Inc（2010/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786458578
• DDC分類 843.08762090914

Full Description

Following World War II, the Fleuve Noir publishing house published popular American genre fiction in translation for a French audience. Their imprint Anticipation specialized in science fiction, but mostly eschewed translations from English, preferring instead French work, thus making the imprint an important outlet for native French postwar ideas and aesthetics. This critical text examines in ideological terms eleven writers who published under the Anticipation imprint, revealing the way these writers criticized midcentury notions of progress while adapting and reworking American genre formats.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Foreword by George Slusser     

Introduction     

One. Background     

Two. The Moderates     

F. Richard-Bessière     

M.A. Rayjean     

Kemmel     

Chapter Summary     

Three. The Extremist     

Jimmy Guieu     

Four. The Conservatives     

Stefan Wul     

Maurice Limat     

Peter Randa     

Kurt Steiner     

Chapter Summary     

Five. The Radicals     

Jean-Gaston Vandel     

B.R. Bruss     

Chapter Summary     

Six. A Last Word     

Gilles D'argyre     

Seven. Conclusion     

Chapter Notes     

Bibliography     

Index