by René Barjavel · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266000482
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«La Nuit des temps» is the science fiction novel by René Barjavel published in 1968 by Pocket in paperback (324 pages, in French).
In Antarctica, an expedition detects a signal under the ice and finds a sphere over 900,000 years old with a sleeping couple inside. When Eléa awakens, the scientists hear the story of an advanced civilization and her love with Païkan, in a tale about war, love, and the power of technology.
The work was recognized with the Prix des Libraires in 1969, a year after its first publication.
For readers of classic science fiction and French literature interested in a love story with a speculative backdrop.
René Barjavel was a French author, journalist and critic who may have been the first to think of the grandfather paradox in time travel. He was born in Nyons, a town in the Drôme department in southeastern France. He is best known as a science fiction author, whose work often involved the fall of civilisation due to technocratic hubris and the madness of war, but who also favoured themes emphasising the durability of love.
