A Voyage to the Moon, by Cyrano de Bergerac
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A Voyage to the Moon, by Cyrano de Bergerac
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"[...]"libertins"; for he has left a series of "Love-Letters" which must almost exactly have suited the taste of those who prepared Discourses on the Tender Passion. He probably had many duels still, for Lebret tells us that he served a hundred times as second—the round number is to be taken as such—and any one acquainted with the epoch, or with the Three Musketeers of Dumas, knows that the seconds fought as well as the principals. Lebret adds, to be sure, that he never had a quarrel on his own account, but we may perhaps take this as a bit of the conscientious "white-washing" which Lebret could not refrain from in speaking of his friend's reputation; for we know enough of his character even from Lebret, and of his life from other sources, to make a gentle peacefulness, so out of keeping with the epoch, somewhat doubtful; and then there was his nose. The Nose is authentic also. It appears in all the portraits, of which there[...]".
A Voyage to the Moon, by Cyrano de Bergerac- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .24" w x 6.00" l, .28 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 104 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Voyage to the Moon By Steven Davis Suspecting that the moon is just another world like the earth, and that its inhabitants have visited us, the adventurer Cyrano de Bergerac devises not one, but several means of paying a return visit. His first attempt is based on the known fact that dew is attracted to the morning sun. "I attached to myself a number of bottles of dew, and the heat of the sun, which attracted it, drew me so high that I finally emerged above the highest clouds." But this has him headed for the sun, not the moon! He realizes his error and releases enough dew to return to earth.His final attempt, one that is more accident than intention, involves a contraption with rockets attached to it so that they fire in stages before falling away. Cyrano is left drifting through space and heading for a fatal impact with the moon, but he is fortunate enough to come straight down into the Garden of Eden where his landing is softened by the boughs of the Tree of Knowledge.The Garden is tenanted by a handful of prophets who explain to Cyrano how Adam and Eve came to be expelled to the earth. Cyrano is about to learn the greatest mysteries of all, when it is his bad timing to make a rather crude joke involving the Almighty. The prophets don't share his sense of humor, so he is expelled to wander the surface of the moon.The moon people are giants who walk on all fours. Their speech resembles the music of the flute. They take Cyrano to be some sort of monkey, so he is captured and used to entertain passers by. He is rescued finally by a being who is one of the natives of the sun. Sun people don't have bodies in the way can understand, so they animate the bodies of the recently dead of other races. This particular sun man says he has spent much time on earth as a teacher and adviser, most recently with Tommaso Campanella (author of The City of the Sun). He takes Cyrano to the moon's royal palace where he becomes something of a pet of the king's daughter. There he meets a Spaniard named Domingo Gonsales, whose voyage to the moon by swan-power was decribed in Francis Godwin's book The Man in the Moone. Gonsales had returned to the moon because "He had not been able to find a single country where the imagination was free."Cyrano finds the culture of the moon people to be in many ways the opposite of Europe's. They venerate the young, and the father becomes a servant to his son. They do not use money, but pay their bills with poems. They've found that smelling food gives one more nutrition than eating it, and avoids those excretory complications. They honor the body and have made virginity a crime. The higher rank a person holds, the fewer clothes he wears; royalty and sages go about naked. It is a mark of honor to expose one's genitals, and when Cyrano says that in his country men of rank wear swords, they are indignant: “O little man, how insane the nobles of your world must be if they pride themselves on a tool used by executioners, one that is made only to destroy and that is, in the end, the sworn enemy of all that lives. And they hide, on the contrary, a part of the body without which we would not exist, one that is the Prometheus of every animal and tirelessly repairs the weaknesses of nature! How unfortunate a country is where the marks of generation are ignominious and those of annihilation are honorable!" Christianity gets much of the blame for this, as one moon man observes: "I am indeed astounded at how much the religion of your country is against nature and is jealous of all the pleasures of men."If Cyrano de Bergerac is remembered for anything these days, it is for the size of his nose. Moon people also have large noses. They say that "a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'." Boys born with a short nose are castrated so there is no chance they can pass on their unfortunate infirmity to another generation.Of the many scientific and technical theories discussed in this novel, it must be noted that Cyrano de Bergerac invented the idea of the audio book and the iPod. Lunar people do not have a written language, but record their books on miniature devices like music boxes. Cyrano was given several of these books, and marveled at how he could "read" without occupying his hands or his eyes. "I attached the books to my ears as pendants and went for a walk in town."Near the end of the novel Cyrano has a debate with a young moon man who is an atheist. Among the moon man's arguments is the observation of God that "if he gave me a mind incapable of comprehending Him, it wouldn't be my fault but His, since he could have given me one capable of doing so.” Cyrano the character defends the faith, but it's fairly obvious from all that has come before that Cyrano the author is more interested in the arguments against God than those in favor.Voyage to the Moon is quite entertaining and inventive. It's obvious from his reference to earlier works that Cyrano de Bergerac sought a place in the growing body of utopian science fiction, though he doesn't offer any radical new social ideas. His novel is a broad satire of religious narrow-mindedness and puritanism, and many of his barbs still hit their mark today.
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