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Critique de NicolaK
Pardonnez-moi ce rapatriement de retour en anglais, mais j'ai lu Nightfall en VO fait la chronique pour un site anglais avant de voir qu'il était ici sous ce titre. Un peu aberrant comme titre, du reste, pour pas changer...
Mais promis, juré, craché, je la referai en français, parce que je n'aime pas traduire mes retours.
The original short story "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov is one of the great science fiction short stories of all time, and it is a fabulous work of imagination. The plot is simple and compelling. A planet similar to Earth has an orbit around multiple suns, such that the planet's inhabitants (essentially human beings) never experience nightfall, as at least one of the planet's suns is always in the sky. Thus the planet's inhabitants are unaware of the existence of stars, other planets, or the rest of the cosmos at all because the constant glare of the suns make most astronomy impossible. This despite the fact that Lagash is, in fact, in the center of a giant cluster in its galaxy.
The lack of night has affected the psychologies of the people such that the dark, rarely experienced, is something they avoid instinctively.
Where the book does a very good job in my opinion is in the twin challenges of presenting the likely response of a society faced with an unprecedented but potentially deadly event on their doorstep and of the probable aftermath of such a life altering catastrophe.
Mais promis, juré, craché, je la referai en français, parce que je n'aime pas traduire mes retours.
The original short story "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov is one of the great science fiction short stories of all time, and it is a fabulous work of imagination. The plot is simple and compelling. A planet similar to Earth has an orbit around multiple suns, such that the planet's inhabitants (essentially human beings) never experience nightfall, as at least one of the planet's suns is always in the sky. Thus the planet's inhabitants are unaware of the existence of stars, other planets, or the rest of the cosmos at all because the constant glare of the suns make most astronomy impossible. This despite the fact that Lagash is, in fact, in the center of a giant cluster in its galaxy.
The lack of night has affected the psychologies of the people such that the dark, rarely experienced, is something they avoid instinctively.
Where the book does a very good job in my opinion is in the twin challenges of presenting the likely response of a society faced with an unprecedented but potentially deadly event on their doorstep and of the probable aftermath of such a life altering catastrophe.
