Тридцать лет назад это считалось фантастикой.Тридцать лет назад это читалось как фантастика. Исследующая и расширяющая границы жанра, жадно впитывающая всевозможные новейшие веяния, примеряющая общечеловеческое лицо, отважно игнорирующая каинову печать «жанрового гетто».Сейчас это воспринимается как одно из самых человечных произведений новейшего времени, как роман пронзительной психологической силы, как филигранное развитие темы любви и ответственности.Не зря вышедшую уже в 90-е книгу воспоминаний Киз назвал «Элджернон и я».

Тридцать лет назад это считалось фантастикой.Тридцать лет назад это читалось как фантастика. Исследующая и расширяющая границы жанра, жадно впитывающая всевозможные новейшие веяния, примеряющая общечеловеческое лицо, отважно игнорирующая каинову печать «жанрового гетто».Сейчас это воспринимается как одно из самых человечных произведений новейшего времени, как роман пронзительной психологической силы, как филигранное развитие темы любви и ответственности.Не зря вышедшую уже в 90-е книгу воспоминаний Киз назвал «Элджернон и я».

Anche pubblicato come “I due mondi di Charly”.

Algernon è un topo, ma non è un topo qualunque. Con un’audace operazione, uno scienziato ha triplicato il suo QI, rendendolo forse più intelligente di alcuni esseri umani. Di certo più di Charlie Gordon che, fino all’età di trentadue anni, ha vissuto nella dolorosa consapevolezza di non essere molto… sveglio. Ma cosa succede quando quella stessa operazione viene effettuata su Charlie?Vincitore del premio Nebula per il miglior romanzo in 1966.Nominato per il premio Hugo per il miglior romanzo in 1967.

Mentally retarded Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius.DANIEL KEYES was born in Brooklyn and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brooklyn College. He has been a merchant seaman, ship’s purser, fiction editor and high school teacher. At the present time, Mr. Keyes is on the English faculty at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.Flowers for Algernon made its first appearance as a magazine story in 1960 and won the Hugo award that year for the best science novelette. It was then a television drama, is here enlarged to novel length, and is also the basis for a motion picture.Mr. Keyes is the author of a second novel, The Touch, and of the nonfiction book, The Minds of Billy Milligan.

v1.0 - eBook downloaded from http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=463754and after that imported to fb2 by soshial (21.05.2008)Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.—Plato, The RepublicA HARVEST BOOK | HARCOURT, INC.ORLANDO AUSTIN NEW YORK SAN DIEGO TORONTO LONDONCopyright © 1966,1959 by Daniel Keyes Copyright renewed 1994 1987 by Daniel KeyesAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to the following address: Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. www.HarcourtBooks.comLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataKeyes, Daniel.Flowers for Algernon/Daniel Keyes.—1st harvest ed. p. cm."A Harvest Book."ISBN 0-15-603008-XPS3561.E769F562004813'.54—dc22 2004005049Text set in Adobe Garamond Designed by Scott PieblPrinted in the United States of America First Harvest edition 2004K J I H

v0.0 — 21 jul 2002 — proofed for #bookzv1.0 — eBook downloaded from http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=463754and after that imported to fb2 by soshial (21.05.2008)wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_AlgernonAny one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.—Plato, The Republic

El decenio 1956-1965 marca una época crítica para la ciencia ficción. La reciente respetabilidad del género motivó la atención, muchas veces peligrosa, del cine y la televisión. El inicio de la Era espacial en octubre de 1957 parecía confirmar aquello de que la realidad supera a la ficción.Pero la crisis condujo a la renovación del género: cuantitativa, por la aparición de una pléyade de nuevos autores; cualitativa, por la revolución de la tématica, que abandona de una vez por todas la fascinación por la cacharrería espacial, sentándose nuevas normas de calidad, como demuestra el presente volumen.– Recopilación, Prefacio e Introducción de Michael Ashley