Alice au pays des merveilles

Name: Alice au pays des merveilles
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Author: Lewis Carroll
ISBN: 9782080145321

Lewis Carroll

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Alice au pays des merveilles prend le parti de l'enfance et de la folie : il fait sauter les verrous de la logique et de la rationalité. Partie à la poursuite d'un Lapin blanc soucieux de ponctualité, Alice se trouve propulsée dans un monde onirique, où le bizarre est érigé en norme, où l'absurde règne en maître. Le Chapelier fou, qui s'évertue à réparer une montre en retard de deux jours, le chat sans tête, perpétuellement hilare, la terrifiante Dame de coeur prise d'une folie de décapitation, sont quelques-uns des personnages qui peuplent cet univers poétique, à la fois fantastique et drôle.

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), some of the most important examples of Victorian literature. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. Some of Alice's nonsensical wonderland logic reflects his published work on mathematical logic. Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans and pursued his clerical training at Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar, teacher and Anglican deacon (required for his academic fellowship at the time). Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church – is widely identified as the original inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, although Carroll always denied this. An avid puzzler, Carroll created the word ladder puzzle, which he called "Doublets", which was published in Vanity Fair magazine between 1879 and 1881. In 1982 a memorial stone to Carroll was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works.