Adam, Paul
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1862-1920) French journalist, editor and author, mostly of historical novels through which he espoused strongly argued anarchist views. Of sf interest is Lettres de Malaisie ["Letters from Malaysia"] (November 1896-August 1897 La Revue Blanche; 1898; vt La Cité Prochaine ["The Next City"]: Lettres de Malaisie 1908) which described a totalitarian Dystopia occupying much of the interior of Borneo from 1850 onwards. Advanced Technology, which includes superior forms of Communication and Transportation, is contrasted with repressive social controls over the population of a manipulative reality-twisting severity that anticipates George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949): the Ministry of Aesthetics, for instance, is responsible for public orgies and parades of readied virgins. [JC]
Paul Marie Auguste Adam
born Paris: 7 December 1862
died Paris: 2 January 1920
works (highly selected)
- Lettres de Malaisie ["Letters from Malaysia"] (Paris: La Revue Blanche, 1898) [first appeared November 1896-August 1897 La Revue Blanche: binding unknown/]
- La Cité Prochaine ["The Next City"]: Lettres de Malaisie (Paris: Bibliothèque des Auteurs Modernes, 1908) [vt of the above: binding unknown/]
about the author
- Raymond John Howgego. Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel: A Comprehensive Guide to Invented, Imaginary, Apocryphal and Plagiarized Narratives of Travel by Land, Sea and Air, from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (Potts Point, New South Wales: Hordern House Rare Books, 2013) [nonfiction: p2: hb/from J M W Turner]
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