Erewhon

or, Over the range

Pas de couverture

Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1921, Jonathan Cape)

Langue : English

Publié 28 septembre 1921 par Jonathan Cape.

Voir sur OpenLibrary

Aucune note (0 critique)

Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872. In this satire of Victorian society, the main character Higgs discovers an unknown country, the seeming utopia called Erewhon, Nowhere backwards with the "h" and "w" transposed. The starting chapters detailing the discovery of Erewhon were based on Butler's experiences in New Zealand as a young man. Butler was possibly the first to write about the idea that machines might one day develop consciousness through the process of Darwinian Selection.

28 éditions

Sujets

  • Utopias.