Viitorul a început ieri: retrospectiva anticipației franceze

Overview:

  • Title: Viitorul a început ieri: retrospectiva anticipației franceze
  • Author: Ion Hobana
  • Year: 1966
  • Publisher: Editura Tineretului
  • Pages: 390
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Viitorul a început ieri: retrospectiva anticipației franceze
  • Notes:
    • Data retrieved from WorldCat and Moshul SF.
    • Title means "The future started yesterday: a retrospective of French anticipation".
    • This book contains a great number of short (?) essays about French authors, the format of which is not clear (distinct essays or chapter parts). Some of these essays are followed by a story or stories, listed below.
    • Book divided into four parts :
      • 1. — "Precursorii" (Precursors) : Cyrano de Bergerac; Voltaire; Louis-Sébastien Mercier; Restif de la Bretonne.
      • 2. — "Secolul al XIX-lea" (19th century) : Lamartine; Victor Hugo; Erckmann-Chatrian; Edmond About; Charles Cros; Albert Robida; Eugène Mouton; Jules Lermina; Villiers de l'Isle-Adam; J. H. Rosny aîné; Maupassant; Jules Verne; Henri de Graffigny; Capitaine Danrit; Marcel Schwob; Camille Flammarion; André Laurie; Paul d'Ivoi; Tristan Bernard.
      • 3. — "Secolul al XX-lea" (20th century) : Guillaume Apollinaire; Alfred Jarry; Jean de la Hire; Gustave Le Rouge; Gaston Leroux; Maurice Leblanc; Léon Groc; Maurice Renard; Pierre Mac Orlan; Pierre Benoit; Claude Farrère; André Maurois; Régis Messac; René Barjavel; Francis Carsac; Jacques Sternberg; Gilles-Maurice Dumoulin; Jimmy Guieu; Y.-F.-J. Long; Gérard Klein; Jean-Louis Curtis; Pierre Gammara; Jean Paulhac; Michel Demuth.
      • 4. — "Bibliografie" (Bibliography).
    • Page count from WorldCat; Moshul SF gives 392.
    • No mention of price or ISBN.
    • Interior art redrawn by H. Mavrodin from some original illustrations.
    • {{Tr|Ion Hobana}} (data from Romanian records).