Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Fantasy et Terreur, Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy pdf - Book by Douglas AdamsRang parmi les ventes Amazon: #147440 dans LivresMarque: Brand: Harmony BooksPublié le: 2010-10-25Nombre d'articles: 1Dimensions: 9.41" h x 6.30" l x 1.69" L, 2.74 livres Reliure: ReliéExtraitWhat Was He Like,Douglas Adams?He was tall, very tall. He had an air of cheerful diffidence. Hecombined a razor-sharp intellect and understanding of whathe was doing with the puzzled look of someone who hadbacked into a profession that surprised him in a world thatperplexed him. And he gave the impression that, all in all, he was ratherenjoying it.He was a genius, of course. It’s a word that gets tossed around a lotthese days, and it’s used to mean pretty much anything. But Douglas wasa genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, hecould communicate the world he saw. Also, once you’d seen it his wayyou could never go back.Douglas Noel Adams was born in 1952 in Cambridge, England (shortlybefore the announcement of an even more influential DNA, deoxyribonucleicacid). He was a self-described “strange child” who did not learnto speak until he was four. He wanted to be a nuclear physicist (“I nevermade it because my arithmetic was so bad”), then went to Cambridge tostudy English, with ambitions that involved becoming part of the traditionof British writer/performers (of which the members of Monty Python’sFlying Circus are the best-known example).When he was eighteen, drunk in a field in Innsbruck, hitchhiking acrossEurope, he looked up at the sky filled with stars and thought, “Somebodyought to write the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Then he went tosleep and almost, but not quite, forgot all about it.He left Cambridge in 1975 and went to London where his many writ-ingand performing projects tended, in the main, not to happen. Heworked with former Python Graham Chapman writing scripts and sketchesfor abortive projects (among them a show for Ringo Starr which containedthe germ of Starship Titanic) and with writer-producer John Lloyd(they pitched a series called Snow Seven and the White Dwarfs, a comedyabout two astronomers in “an observatory on Mt. Everest–“The ideafor that was minimum casting, minimum set, and we’d just try to sell theseries on cheapness”).He liked science fiction, although he was never a fan. He supportedhimself through this period with a variety of odd jobs: he was, for example,a hired bodyguard for an oil-rich Arabian family, a job that entailedwearing a suit and sitting in hotel corridors through the night listening tothe ding of passing elevators.In 1977 BBC radio producer (and well-known mystery author) SimonBrett commissioned him to write a science fiction comedy for BBC RadioFour. Douglas originally imagined a series of six half-hour comediescalled The Ends of the Earth–funny stories which at the end of each, theworld would end. In the first episode, for example, the Earth would bedestroyed to make way for a cosmic freeway.But, Douglas soon realized, if you are going to destroy the Earth, youneed someone to whom it matters. Someone like a reporter for, yes, theHitchchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And someone else . . . a man who wascalled Alaric B in Douglas’s original proposal. At the last moment Douglascrossed out Alaric B and wrote above it Arthur Dent. A normal namefor a normal man.For those people listening to BBC Radio 4 in 1978 the show came as arevelation. It was funny–genuinely witty, surreal, and smart. The serieswas produced by Geoffrey Perkins, and the last two episodes of the firstseries were co-written with John Lloyd.(I was a kid who discovered the series–accidentally, as most listenersdid–with the second episode. I sat in the car in the driveway, gettingcold, listening to Vogon poetry, and then the ideal radio line “Ford,you’re turning into an infinite number of penguins,” and I was happy;perfectly, unutterably happy.)By now, Douglas had a real job. He was the script editor for the long-runningBBC SF series Doctor Who, in the Tom Baker days.Pan Books approached him about doing a book based on the radio series,and Douglas got the manuscript for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to theGalaxy in to his editors at Pan slightly late (according to legend they telephonedhim and asked, rather desperately, where he was in the book, andhow much more he had to go. He told them. “Well,” said his editor,making the best of a bad job, “just finish the page you’re on and we’llsend a motorbike around to pick it up in half an hour”). The book, a paperbackoriginal, became a surprise bestseller, as did, less surprisingly, itsfour sequels. It spawned a bestselling text-based computer game.The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy sequence used the tropes of sciencefiction to talk about the things that concerned Douglas, the worldhe observed, his thoughts on Life, the Universe, and Everything. As wemoved into a world where people really did think that digital watcheswere a pretty neat thing, the landscape had become science fiction andDouglas, with a relentless curiosity about matters scientific, an instinctfor explanation, and a laser-sharp sense of where the joke was, was ina perfect position to comment upon, to explain, and to describe thatlandscape.I read a lengthy newspaper article recently demonstrating that Hitchhiker’swas in fact a lengthy tribute to Lewis Carroll (something thatwould have come as a surprise to Douglas, who had disliked the little ofAlice in Wonderland he read). Actually, the literary tradition that Douglaswas part of was, at least initially, the tradition of English Humor Writingthat gave us P. G. Wodehouse (whom Douglas often cited as an influence,although most people tended to miss it because Wodehouse didn’t writeabout spaceships).Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as timewent on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist whohad not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process ofcrafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays.He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing andexplaining with an enthusiasm that was uniquely his own. Douglas’sability to miss deadlines became legendary. (“I love deadlines,” he saidonce. “I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.”)He died in May 2001–too young. His death surprised us all, and left ahuge, Douglas Adams—sized hole in the world. We had lost both the man(tall, affable, smiling gently at a world that baffled and delighted him)and the mind.He left behind a number of novels, as often-imitated as they are, ultimately,inimitable. He left behind characters as delightful as Marvin theParanoid Android, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Slartibartfast. He left sentencesthat will make you laugh with delight as they rewire the back ofyour head.And he made it look so easy.–Neil Gaiman,January 2002(Long before Neil Gaiman was the bestselling author of novels like American Gods andNeverwhere, or graphic novels like The Sandman sequence, he wrote a book called Don’tPanic, a history of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.)Revue de presse"It's science fiction and it's extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive." (Washington Post)"The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions." (Chicago Tribune)"Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves." (School Library Journal)"A sci-fi book, packed full of adventure and humour" (The Guardian)Présentation de l'éditeurFirst a legendary radio series, then a bestselling book, now a blockbuser movie, the immensely successful Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy needs no introduction. Reissued to coincide with the film's release, this hardback omnibus edition include all five parts of the trilogy, incorporating for the first time, Mostly Harmless, along with a guide to the guide and essential notes on how to leave the planet.This single hardback edition is indispensable for any would-be galactic traveller and for old and new fans of Douglas Adams, Doctor Who and bestselling science fiction books.
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1 internautes sur 1 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile.ExcellentPar AntoineLe "Guide du Routard" est vraiment un livre à lire. Et la version originale en particulier, car la traduction française a pris un parti pas forcément en ligne avec le style de l'original : calembours énormes, voire détournement de certains "gags". La lecture en anglais, si on peut se la permettre, vaut vraiment la peine : on retrouve l'absurde et le "nonsense" des Monty Python, avec lesquels Douglas Adams a beaucoup travaillé, et le style est très agréable.Cette édition permet d'avoir tous les volumes (écrits par D. Adams) en un seul, ce qui est fort pratique. Seule la couverture est un peu décevante car de qualité moyenne : les coins s'abiment un peu vite, mais si on est soigneux ce n'est pas un problème.
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