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 voila! 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, Stephane Mallarme, 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.
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