Typescript of the Second Origin

By Manuel de Pedrolo

Book Overview

The first English translation of a Catalan science fiction masterpiece

Manuel de Pedrolo's widely acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel, which includes a foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson, tells the story of two children who survive the brutal destruction of Earth by alien explorers. The protagonists, Alba and D dac, retreat to the forest, then journey to the rubble of Barcelona to rescue and preserve the remnants of human civilization in the city's bombed libraries and cultural institutions. In the absence of the rule of law and social norms, the children create a utopian world of two that honors knowledge and interracial love, to become a new Adam and Eve and try to bring about the world's second origin. A bestseller and required reading for secondary school students in Catalonia, Typescript of the Second Origin is indispensable to understand how a region of Spain whose language, culture, and institutions were targeted and punished by Francisco Franco. At the same time, Pedrolo's tale of survival reaches beyond national and cultural borders to offer contemporary international readers a timely warning about the threat of global ecological destruction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819577421
• ISBN13: 9780819577429
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

in catalan

Sixteenth edition (1981), i read,catching science fiction novel in catalan lenguage. The adventures of a couple of youngsters who are left alone on planet earth after an atack of flying saucers. They are a new Adam and Eve, and therefore a second origin... will they make it? ...