Cyrano De Bergerac, Savinien De(1619–1655)
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, a soldier, man of letters, and freethinker, was born in Paris, where he died thirty-six years later; he resembled only...
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A poet, novelist, and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac was born Savinien de Cyrano in Paris on 6 March 1619 to Abel de Cyrano and his wife, Espérance de Bellanger. Abel de Cyrano was a landowner ...
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If Edmond Rostand is known throughout the world today, it is for his play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897; translated, 1921). Although he wrote a total of seven plays and three volumes of poetry, he has been...
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In the following essay, Aldington attempts to distinguish between myth and fact in regard to Cyrano's life and career.
I. the Legend of Cyrano
The legend of Cyrano de Bergerac began, one might ...
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In the excerpt which follows, Spink examines the philosophical underpinnings of Cyrano's works.
Savinien de Cyrano, known as Cyrano de Bergerac, was one of the most daring speculative thinkers ...
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In the following excerpt, Lanius examines the fantastic images found in Cyrano's letters.
The most familiar arrangement of Cyrano's letters is Paul Lacroix' three-part division in...
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In the excerpt below, Harth examines Cyrano's treatment of miracles in his works, noting the author's consistently skeptical view of religion.
The consistent denunciation of miracles by ...
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In the essay below, DeJean explores the dialogic narrative structure of Les Etats et empires de la lune, which leaves unresolved the contradictions between the different philosophies the work examines...
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In the following excerpt, Mason outlines the materialist philosophy Cyrano promotes in his stories of space travel.
To most people, Cyrano's work is best known for its science-fiction qualities...
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In the following essay, Goux explores the reversal of earthly values in the utopian society on the moon depicted in L'Autre Monde.
The belligerent narrator of Cyrano de Bergerac's L�...
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In the essay below, MacPhail analyzes Cyrano's rejection of “the marvellous and the verisimilar” in L'Autre Monde, arguing that the author saw them as literary conventions ...
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In the following essay, Romanowski argues that Cyrano joined together elements of both materialist and hermetic philosophy in L'Autre Monde.
1. Cyrano's Fiction in Context: Competing Sci...
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In the novel Cyrano Bergerac, Edmond Rostand creates a dynamic in Cyrano. Cyrano possesses an abundant number of traits including intelligence and courage. Throughout the novel the character uses th...
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Cyrano De Bergerac, Savinien De (1619–1655)
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
