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During a tropical storm over the Pacific, French Air Force Captain
L'Herbaudiere is mysteriously transported to a utopia-like society
of free love which rejected money and technology two thousand years
earlier. But even that utopia has its dark side: the Accursed, a
prison-state locked behind an impregnable magnetic barrier, where
those who refuse to live in utopia are condemned to remain. The
arrival of L'Herbaudiere threatens the very foundations of the
Inverted World... Labelled "one of the most imaginatively ambitious
works of its era" by Brian Stableford, Marcel Rouff's Journey to
the Inverted World (1920) is both a rare contemporary exercise in
utopianism, as well as a ground-breaking work of science fiction
depicting 2000 years of futuristic history.
In the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the high arts: the art of food and the art of love. This edition contains a Preface by Lawrence Durrell and a new Intro-duction by Jeffrey Steingarten, the food critic for Vogue magazine and author of the bestselling book The Man Who Ate Everything.
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