Donogoo Tonka or the Miracles of Science: A Cinematographic Tale (FORuM Project Publications) - Hardcover

Romains, Jules

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568987803 ISBN 13: 9781568987804

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009

Synopsis

Donogoo-Tonka or The Miracles of Science: A Cinematographic Tale is a mock film scenario written by the French novelist Jules Romains. It was first published in book form in 1920, and has never been translated into English. The satirical plot concerns a famous geographer whose academic career is about to be derailed by the revelation that he has invented a city in South America. Through a hilarious sequence of events, a suicidal young man finds a new mission in life by undertaking to build the fictional city, thereby redeeming the error and reputation of the absentminded professor.

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About the Author:

Jules Romains, 1885-1972, is the pseudonym of Louis Farigoule, a French novelist, dramatist, and poet. Romains was the founder of Unanimism, a social-literary theory that posited a collective spirit or personality within society. This concept pervades an early collection of his poems, La Vie unanime (1908), as well as his principal work, the twenty-seven-volume novel cycle, Men of Good Will (1932-46), which gives an intricate and panoramic view of French life from 1908 to 1933 with no central figure but a huge cast of characters. His plays include a different version of Donogoo-Tonka (also untranslated) and the satirical farce Knock; ou, Le Triomphe de la medecine (1923; translated as Doctor Knock), concerning the power of medical doctors to strain human credulity. Both were made into films. In 1946 he was elected to the Academie Francaise.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1568987803
• ISBN 13: 9781568987804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136