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La plaie #1
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В «Язве», своем наиболее значительном романе, известная французская писательница сочетает захватывающий сюжет с глубокими размышлениями о путях развития цивилизаций, о вечной борьбе разума и социальной энтропии.
- GenresScience Fiction
336 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1964
About the author
Nathalie Henneberg
31 books3 followersSee also works published as
Nathalie-Charles Henneberg
Натали Хеннеберг
Nathalie Henneberg (October 23, 1910, Batumi – June 24, 1977, Paris) was a French science fiction writer, a precursor of modern French heroic fantasy. She was married to, and collaborated with, Charles Henneberg zu Irmelshausen Wasungen (1899–1959).
Henneberg got her start writing with her husband, apparently collaborating without attribution on several of his novels. German-born Charles Henneberg wrote a series of flamboyant space operas featuring superheroic protagonists, often soldiers or mercenaries, full of violent, romantic passions. La Naissance des Dieux [The Birth Of The Gods] (1954) adapted Greek and Nordic mythologies in a science fiction context. In it, a scientist, an astronaut and a poet stranded on another planet discover they can psychically create life and, eventually, vie for supremacy. In accordance with Henneberg’s philosophy, the astronaut was the hero, and the poet the misguided villain. The novel won the then Rosny Award.
Le Chant des Astronautes The Astronauts' Song (1958) dealt with the battle against energy creatures from Algol. An Premier, Ere Spatiale Year 1 Of The Space Era (1959) was about the first faster-than-light spaceship. Finally, La Rosée du Soleil The Dew Of The Sun (1959) told the adventures of the four crewmen of a spaceship stranded on an alien world.
After Charles Henneberg’s death in 1959, Russian-born Nathalie Henneberg continued to work on writing, now under her own name. She initially wrote under the name Nathalie-Charles Henneberg, eventually dropping "-Charles" in favor of simply "Nathalie Henneberg." Her writings in her own name increasingly relied on fantasy rather than science fiction elements.
Les Dieux Verts The Green Gods (1961) told the romance of Argo and Atlena during the Emerald Age of Earth, in the future, when Man’s Empire is on the decline and the world is ruled by the eponymous “Green Gods”, powerful entities from the vegetal kingdom.
Le Sang des Astres The Blood Of The Stars (1963) was a colorful fantasy in which an astronaut from the year 2700 journeys to a medieval Earth-like world ruled by kabbala, and falls in love with a female salamander.
Nathalie Henneberg’s masterpiece was La Plaie The Plague (1964), a sprawling 600-page novel that told of the desperate battle by a handful of humans and angel-like mutants against a wave of pure evil sweeping the galaxy, which incarnates itself in the bodies of the “Nocturnes” Nocturnals.
Henneberg’s works stood alone in the literary landscape of the 1960s. Her use of the French language, betraying Germanic and Russian influences, was unusually well-suited to creating larger-than-life heroic characters and epic romances. She knew how to build full-blown, intricately detailed baroque universes.
Nathalie-Charles Henneberg
Натали Хеннеберг
Nathalie Henneberg (October 23, 1910, Batumi – June 24, 1977, Paris) was a French science fiction writer, a precursor of modern French heroic fantasy. She was married to, and collaborated with, Charles Henneberg zu Irmelshausen Wasungen (1899–1959).
Henneberg got her start writing with her husband, apparently collaborating without attribution on several of his novels. German-born Charles Henneberg wrote a series of flamboyant space operas featuring superheroic protagonists, often soldiers or mercenaries, full of violent, romantic passions. La Naissance des Dieux [The Birth Of The Gods] (1954) adapted Greek and Nordic mythologies in a science fiction context. In it, a scientist, an astronaut and a poet stranded on another planet discover they can psychically create life and, eventually, vie for supremacy. In accordance with Henneberg’s philosophy, the astronaut was the hero, and the poet the misguided villain. The novel won the then Rosny Award.
Le Chant des Astronautes The Astronauts' Song (1958) dealt with the battle against energy creatures from Algol. An Premier, Ere Spatiale Year 1 Of The Space Era (1959) was about the first faster-than-light spaceship. Finally, La Rosée du Soleil The Dew Of The Sun (1959) told the adventures of the four crewmen of a spaceship stranded on an alien world.
After Charles Henneberg’s death in 1959, Russian-born Nathalie Henneberg continued to work on writing, now under her own name. She initially wrote under the name Nathalie-Charles Henneberg, eventually dropping "-Charles" in favor of simply "Nathalie Henneberg." Her writings in her own name increasingly relied on fantasy rather than science fiction elements.
Les Dieux Verts The Green Gods (1961) told the romance of Argo and Atlena during the Emerald Age of Earth, in the future, when Man’s Empire is on the decline and the world is ruled by the eponymous “Green Gods”, powerful entities from the vegetal kingdom.
Le Sang des Astres The Blood Of The Stars (1963) was a colorful fantasy in which an astronaut from the year 2700 journeys to a medieval Earth-like world ruled by kabbala, and falls in love with a female salamander.
Nathalie Henneberg’s masterpiece was La Plaie The Plague (1964), a sprawling 600-page novel that told of the desperate battle by a handful of humans and angel-like mutants against a wave of pure evil sweeping the galaxy, which incarnates itself in the bodies of the “Nocturnes” Nocturnals.
Henneberg’s works stood alone in the literary landscape of the 1960s. Her use of the French language, betraying Germanic and Russian influences, was unusually well-suited to creating larger-than-life heroic characters and epic romances. She knew how to build full-blown, intricately detailed baroque universes.
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September 14, 2026
Je comprends maintenant pourquoi les femmes sont sous-représentées et sous publiées dans la SF. Parce qu'elles pondent des gros classiques comme ça et que les hommes sont juste DE GROS JALOUX.
Plus sérieusement je ne comprends pas comment La Plaie n'est pas plus étudié ou au moins plus connu dans la littérature "mainstream" fr. Il n'y a que les nerds hardcore de SF qui le connaissent et seulement dans le prisme du genre littéraire en question: La Plaie n'est acceptée que comme chef d'œuvre de SF, mais pas comme chef d'œuvre tout court. Sauf que c'est évident que ses qualités vont bien au-delà du fait d'être un roman pionnier de son genre.
Je l'ai lu par pur hasard (parce que je trouvais la couverture stylée :D), et je pense sincèrement que l'acheter était la meilleure décision de ma vie (j'exagère peut-être mais pas autant que vous ne le pensez).
Bref lisez-le svp
Plus sérieusement je ne comprends pas comment La Plaie n'est pas plus étudié ou au moins plus connu dans la littérature "mainstream" fr. Il n'y a que les nerds hardcore de SF qui le connaissent et seulement dans le prisme du genre littéraire en question: La Plaie n'est acceptée que comme chef d'œuvre de SF, mais pas comme chef d'œuvre tout court. Sauf que c'est évident que ses qualités vont bien au-delà du fait d'être un roman pionnier de son genre.
Je l'ai lu par pur hasard (parce que je trouvais la couverture stylée :D), et je pense sincèrement que l'acheter était la meilleure décision de ma vie (j'exagère peut-être mais pas autant que vous ne le pensez).
Bref lisez-le svp
August 31, 2018
Так плохо, что местами чуть-чуть хорошо. Но в целом плохо.
August 18, 2024
Je n'ai pas accroché à la façon dont le livre est écrit, partant dans tous les sens, on a du mal à suivre ce qui se passe ... L'histoire est intéressante, mais trop compliqué à suivre par moment, entre les sauts dans le passé, dans le futur etc ...
Je ne regrette pas de l'avoir lu, mais je ne le relirai pas.
Je ne regrette pas de l'avoir lu, mais je ne le relirai pas.
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