by René Barjavel · Presses de la Cite · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266023030
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«La Nuit des temps» is the science fiction novel by René Barjavel, published by Presses de la Cite in paperback (380 pages, in French).
In Antarctica, a French mission picks up a signal under the ice and digs down to find a vanished civilization. Inside a capsule sleeps Eléa, a woman from an advanced world 900,000 years ago. Her awakening confronts two eras; the novel blends adventure, love and reflection on war and civilization.
Originally published in 1968, it won the Prix des Libraires in 1969. Number 812 in the Pocket collection.
For readers of classic science fiction and French literature interested in adventure and romance.
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.
