Le Micromégas is a 1752 novella by the French philosopher and satirist Voltaire. Along with his story "Plato's Dream", it is an early example in the literary genre of science fiction and has its place in the development of the history of literature. Some uncertainty surrounds the first publication of …
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Le Micromégas is a 1752 novella by the French philosopher and satirist Voltaire. Along with his story "Plato's Dream", it is an early example in the literary genre of science fiction and has its place in the development of the history of literature. Some uncertainty surrounds the first publication of Micromégas, with possible editions dating to 1751 or as early as 1739, but with the widely accepted publication being 1752. The tale recounts the visit to Earth of a being from a planet circling the star Sirius, and of his companion from the planet Saturn. The technique of using an outsider to comment on aspects of Western culture was popular in this period; Voltaire also used it in Zadig. Montesquieu, too, applied it in Persian Letters, as did José Cadalso in Cartas marruecas and Tomás Antônio Gonzaga in Cartas Chilenas.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 314941
- BNF ID:
- 119574805
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Micromégas
38 pages
English language
Published May 1, 1995
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-038902-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1156110
Micromégas : histoire philosophique
129 pages
French language
Published 2006 by Éditions Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-032172-8Copied ISBN!
Micromegas L'Ingenu
165 pages
French language
Published June 5, 2002 by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-042356-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 289383
Micromégas and other short fictions
English language
Published 2002 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-044686-9Copied ISBN!
Micromégas / Le monde comme il va / Jeannot et Colin
144 pages
French language
Published Aug. 22, 2007 by Éditions Larousse.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-03-583427-0Copied ISBN!
Micromégas
94 pages
French language
Published 2000 by Éditions Albin Michel.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-253-14904-0Copied ISBN!
Micromégas
French language
Published Aug. 21, 2001 by Flammarion.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-08-072135-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1768277
Micromégas- Voltaire - 17
French language
Published March 1, 2012
- ISBN:
- 978-2-09-188436-3Copied ISBN!
Micromégas et autres contes
French language
Published Sept. 1, 1999
- ISBN:
- 978-2-01-167854-6Copied ISBN!
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