“L’Horloge des siècles” (1902) d’Albert Robida. The Twentieth Century-a unique blend of objets dart and pulp fiction, science fiction and. Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature 'The Clock of the Centuries' (1902), by Albert Robida. Buy a cheap copy of Le Vingtime Sicle book by Albert Robida. Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego Keywords: Robida (Albert) post-apocalyptic (genre) regressive anticipation anti-progressivism catastrophism Summary/Abstract: French writer Albert Robida, renowned for his futuristic works of fiction written in a bitter-sweet tone, somehow broke away from his usual inspiration in “The Clock of the Centuries” (published in 1902), as electric life short-circuited. This atypical novel opens up, in the early stages of the twentieth century Robida now refuses to anticipate and explore, with a cataclysm that all but extinguishes every form of life on earth and gives a symbolic warning that there is something wrong in the civilized world. Survival is organized, but Robida then subverts the “post-apocalyptic” narrative to introduce an unprecedented variation: the survivors realize that, after the catastrophe, an “out-of-joint” universe, in which the hands of time are now ticking in reverse, has now taken over.

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