Gaston de Pawlowski (
Joigny, 14 June 1874 - 2 February 1933, Paris) was a French writer best known for his prophetic 1911 novel of
science fiction, ''Voyage au pays de la quatrième dimension'' (''Voyage to the Land of the Fourth Dimension'').
''Voyage au pays de la quatrième dimension''
First published in 1911 in the monthly review Comœdia then in 1912, Pawlowski produced a new edition in 1923 in which he discussed the implications of Einsteinian physics upon his work. That edition was published in an English translation by
Brian Stableford in 2009.
The illustrations for the book edition of the ''Voyage'' were prepared by
Léonard SarluisLéonard SARLUIS. Voyage au pays de la quatrième dimension
Livrenblog, 31 August 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2014. which Jean Clair
Jean Clair () is the pen name of Gérard Régnier (born 20 October 1940 in Paris, France). Clair is an essayist, a polemicist, an art historian, an art conservator, and a member of the Académie française since May, 2008.Éric Biétry-Riviérr ...
thought was the inspiration for Marcel Duchamp's '' Large Glass''.["SARLUIS, Léonard." ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford Art Online'', Oxford University Press. Retrieved 5 July 2014.]
Selected publications
*
Voyage au pays de la quatrième dimension.
' Charpentier, Paris, 1912. (Second edition 1923)
*''Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension.'' English translation by Brian M. Stableford. Encino, CA: Black Coat Press, 2009.
References
External links
*http://dadaparis.blogspot.co.uk/2007_03_28_archive.html
*http://forums.bdfi.net/viewtopic.php?id=228
1874 births
1933 deaths
People from Joigny
French science fiction writers
Writers from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
French male novelists
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