The invisible man : a grotesque romance

Paperback, 128 sidor

På English

Publicerades 10 juli 2014 av Melville House Publishing.

ISBN:: 978-1-61219-322-9

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and who invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light. He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. A practitioner of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction. While its predecessors, The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, were written using first-person narrators, Wells adopts a third-person objective point of view in The Invisible Man. The novel is considered influential, and helped establish Wells as the "father of science fiction".

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"We begin with a reign of terror."

The Invisible Man can be read in quite a few ways. There's something to the idea that Wells, more or less contemporary to Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, is simply serving up the same question in a punchier, sci-fi way: What is allowed when nobody sees you do it? The text and its adaptations has kept evolving, Frankenstein-like, as technology and society has moved on; from Whale's 1933 madcap proto-slasher via tons of sexploitation takes on it to Whannell flipping the script in 2020 (power structures are always invisible!).

The novel itself has aged remarkably well, notwithstanding that it slams on the breaks mid-third act to give us 30 pages of exposition. Wells mixes humour with chilling details, giving voice to the invisible unfettered supervillain; yeah, he gets his comeuppance at the end, but... don't we secretly enjoy it? Doesn't it seem fun to live …

"We begin with a reign of terror."

The Invisible Man can be read in quite a few ways. There's something to the idea that Wells, more or less contemporary to Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, is simply serving up the same question in a punchier, sci-fi way: What is allowed when nobody sees you do it? The text and its adaptations has kept evolving, Frankenstein-like, as technology and society has moved on; from Whale's 1933 madcap proto-slasher via tons of sexploitation takes on it to Whannell flipping the script in 2020 (power structures are always invisible!).

The novel itself has aged remarkably well, notwithstanding that it slams on the breaks mid-third act to give us 30 pages of exposition. Wells mixes humour with chilling details, giving voice to the invisible unfettered supervillain; yeah, he gets his comeuppance at the end, but... don't we secretly enjoy it? Doesn't it seem fun to live without consequences?