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With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses, and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin—the new guest at the Coach and Horses—is at first assumed to be a shy accident victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old friend, Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however, and when Kemp refuses to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, suggestions for further reading, and detailed notes
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In this fully-dramatized performance of H.G. Wells' classic, The Invisible Man, Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, and cast memebers from Star Trek feature films and all four TV series take you on an incredible journey.
The Invisible Man tells the story of the demented scientist, Griffin, who crumbles under his own diabolical scheme in this chilling nightmare of believable horror. The result is a masterwork—a dazzling display of unbridled imagination and psychologist insight.
Featuring virtuso performances from the entire cast, riveting sound effects, and original music, Alien Voices' production of The Invisible Man is an adventure in sound.
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厚いコートに顔は包帯でぐるぐる巻き、目には黒眼鏡を掛け、部屋の中でも決して手袋を外さない―――ふらりと現れたその奇妙な男のことを、村人達は「何か大きな事故にでも遭ったのに違い無い」と噂し合った。だがそうではなかったのだ。その男グリフィスは、科学実験の失敗によって不可視の存在になってしまっていたのだ！ 元に戻ろうと友人ケンプに助力を請い、苦闘するグリフィス。だが彼の言動は次第に粗暴さを増し、日に日に傍若無人になってゆき、遂に………。
映画でのビジュアル・イメージによってすっかりお馴染みのSFホラーの古典的名作である。日本では「透明人間」と云う訳が定着してしまっている様だが、「不可視、目に見えない＝他人の視線と云う制約から解放された」と読んでみると、寓意的な意味をそこに読み取ることも可能である。それまでは精々幽霊物語か怪奇小説の道具立てであった「目に見えない存在」を可知の領域へと引き摺り込み、そこから生じるドタバタと恐怖を美事に演出してみせるその手腕を御堪能あれ。
この新しいペンギン版は、従来の決定版とされるアトランティック版を改訂したテキストを使用しており、最近の若い読者向けの13頁分の解説や、11頁分の註の他、著者略歴、文献案内、テキスト註解が付いていてお薦めである。
映画でのビジュアル・イメージによってすっかりお馴染みのSFホラーの古典的名作である。日本では「透明人間」と云う訳が定着してしまっている様だが、「不可視、目に見えない＝他人の視線と云う制約から解放された」と読んでみると、寓意的な意味をそこに読み取ることも可能である。それまでは精々幽霊物語か怪奇小説の道具立てであった「目に見えない存在」を可知の領域へと引き摺り込み、そこから生じるドタバタと恐怖を美事に演出してみせるその手腕を御堪能あれ。
この新しいペンギン版は、従来の決定版とされるアトランティック版を改訂したテキストを使用しており、最近の若い読者向けの13頁分の解説や、11頁分の註の他、著者略歴、文献案内、テキスト註解が付いていてお薦めである。
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この本を読んだきっかけは、子供の頃の何かで見た記憶、例の包帯とサングラスの透明人間の姿しか印象に残っていなかったからです。やはり、原作を読んでみて単なるSF小説ではない面白さと凄みを味わいました。
大きく分けて前半は透明人間が逗留した宿とその村周辺での騒ぎ、後半は彼が奇しくも逃げ込んだ学生時代の友人の家での彼の告白から成ります。個人的には、はっきりいって後半が断然興味深かったです。透明になる迄のいきさつや実験と実行、その後の透明人間としての経験などが、当事者ならではの現実味を感じさせつつ語られていきます。透明であることは誰にも無い強みとなり得ますが、同時に、透明人間ならではの予想だにしなかった苦労と精神的ストレスを味わうのです。彼はその両面を経験するうちに常人の神経を失い次第に恐怖で他人を支配しようとしていきます。このあたりの異常さが次第に増していく描写はとても迫力があります。
しかし、このような異常さは古今東西枚挙に暇がないかもしれません。私はSWのダースベーダーになりかけているアナキンをちょっと思い出しました。また、現実世界のある人々も・・・誰にも無い武器を身に着けると自分を万能のように錯覚し恐怖で人々を支配できると思い込む人間の危険性を改めて思います。また、科学の進歩と人間との関係の危うい側面も。多かれ少なかれ誰にも起こりうることかもしれません。
この小説が優れているのは、そういう強さと隣り合わせの弱さをまざまざと描き出していることでしょう。これは19世紀生まれにしてウェルズが現代にそして全ての人々に投げかけた警告なのだと思います。
大きく分けて前半は透明人間が逗留した宿とその村周辺での騒ぎ、後半は彼が奇しくも逃げ込んだ学生時代の友人の家での彼の告白から成ります。個人的には、はっきりいって後半が断然興味深かったです。透明になる迄のいきさつや実験と実行、その後の透明人間としての経験などが、当事者ならではの現実味を感じさせつつ語られていきます。透明であることは誰にも無い強みとなり得ますが、同時に、透明人間ならではの予想だにしなかった苦労と精神的ストレスを味わうのです。彼はその両面を経験するうちに常人の神経を失い次第に恐怖で他人を支配しようとしていきます。このあたりの異常さが次第に増していく描写はとても迫力があります。
しかし、このような異常さは古今東西枚挙に暇がないかもしれません。私はSWのダースベーダーになりかけているアナキンをちょっと思い出しました。また、現実世界のある人々も・・・誰にも無い武器を身に着けると自分を万能のように錯覚し恐怖で人々を支配できると思い込む人間の危険性を改めて思います。また、科学の進歩と人間との関係の危うい側面も。多かれ少なかれ誰にも起こりうることかもしれません。
この小説が優れているのは、そういう強さと隣り合わせの弱さをまざまざと描き出していることでしょう。これは19世紀生まれにしてウェルズが現代にそして全ての人々に投げかけた警告なのだと思います。
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Extremely Influential, Extremely Memorable
2004/2/3
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On the surface, THE INVISIBLE MAN concerns a scientist named Griffin who has discovered the means to invisibility--but who has gone mad in the process. When frustrated in his efforts to restore himself to visibility, he determines to embark upon a reign of terror that will make him master of the world. It is worth noting, however, that Wells was very much a social writer and that his novels are inevitably commentaries on various social evils. Once you scratch the surface of THE INVISIBLE MAN you will find that it is very much a parable of class structure that dominated British life during the Victorian age: there are many "invisible men;" this particular one, however, is in a very literal situation.
And it is the literal situation from which the novel draws most of its power. Invisibility sounds attractive--but what if you were to actually become so? How would you cope with the ordinary details of every day life? Griffin does not cope well at all, and although Wells suggests that his madness have arisen from a number of sources, he also implies that it may arise from the fact of invisibility itself, again twisting the context back into the social criticism on which the novel seems based.
First published in 1897, THE INVISIBLE MAN is one of Wells earliest novels, and for all its charms it creaks a bit in terms of plot and structure. Some may disagree, but to my mind the most effective portion of the novel are the chapters in which Griffin relates his adventures to fellow scientist Kemp--but regardless of its flaws remains extremely influential and it has tremendous dash and style throughout. Short enough to be read in a single sitting, it is a quick and entertaining read and it is also quite witty in an underhanded, subversive sort of way. Extremely memorable!
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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Still interesting
2009/11/1
形式:Kindle版|Amazonが確認した購入
First, this edition: it's reasonably well-formatted for a free ebook, with few typos, although the table of contents is not clickable; it clocks in at 1,841 "locations."
As to the story itself:
This is H.G. Wells' foundational science-fiction tale of a mad scientist who discovers a way to turn himself invisible. It's a masterfully told story that's been entertaining readers for roughly a hundred years, and I'd lay good odds you'll find it well worth the read.
What many readers might miss, though (I certainly did, my first time through) is that this isn't just a sci-fi potboiler; it's a modernization of the Platonic story of the Ring of Gyges. Beyond being a master storyteller, Wells was also an ardent philosopher and socialist, and like all of his other tales, there's a major political point here -- that morality derives from society -- and some additional minor political themes, like the plight of the urban poor.
Wells' genius here was to take the Platonic story of a Ring of Invisibility that inevitably led its wearer to commit injustice, and revitalize it in a modern context and in a way that made a sophisticated philosophical point.
Where Plato's Glaucon states:
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"For all men believe in their hearts that injustice is far more profitable to the individual than justice, and he who argues as I have been supposing, will say that they are right. If you could imagine any one obtaining this power of becoming invisible, and never doing any wrong or touching what was another's, he would be thought by the lookers-on to be a most wretched idiot, although they would praise him to one another's faces, and keep up appearances with one another from a fear that they too might suffer injustice."
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Wells extrapolates to the present, not only making the story amenable to modern readers by substituting a scientific process for a magic ring, but also by building on Plato's point: not only does Wells' protagonist commit selfish injustice after selfish injustice, but his self-severance from society drives him into a murderous megalomania, and his end is quite the inverse of Plato's Gyges (who ended up king of Lydia and, supposedly, an ancestor of Croesus).
As to the story itself:
This is H.G. Wells' foundational science-fiction tale of a mad scientist who discovers a way to turn himself invisible. It's a masterfully told story that's been entertaining readers for roughly a hundred years, and I'd lay good odds you'll find it well worth the read.
What many readers might miss, though (I certainly did, my first time through) is that this isn't just a sci-fi potboiler; it's a modernization of the Platonic story of the Ring of Gyges. Beyond being a master storyteller, Wells was also an ardent philosopher and socialist, and like all of his other tales, there's a major political point here -- that morality derives from society -- and some additional minor political themes, like the plight of the urban poor.
Wells' genius here was to take the Platonic story of a Ring of Invisibility that inevitably led its wearer to commit injustice, and revitalize it in a modern context and in a way that made a sophisticated philosophical point.
Where Plato's Glaucon states:
--------
"For all men believe in their hearts that injustice is far more profitable to the individual than justice, and he who argues as I have been supposing, will say that they are right. If you could imagine any one obtaining this power of becoming invisible, and never doing any wrong or touching what was another's, he would be thought by the lookers-on to be a most wretched idiot, although they would praise him to one another's faces, and keep up appearances with one another from a fear that they too might suffer injustice."
--------
Wells extrapolates to the present, not only making the story amenable to modern readers by substituting a scientific process for a magic ring, but also by building on Plato's point: not only does Wells' protagonist commit selfish injustice after selfish injustice, but his self-severance from society drives him into a murderous megalomania, and his end is quite the inverse of Plato's Gyges (who ended up king of Lydia and, supposedly, an ancestor of Croesus).
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Brilliant book--questionable edition
2006/10/26
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First off, the book is amazing--taut, tantalizing and fast-moving. The protagonist is . . . fascinatingly horrible. I really don't want to reveal more. It was fun for me because I knew so little about what was going to happen!
Wells does a masterful job of leading the plot through several points of view. Some parts you see happen before you, some you only hear about and some you can only guess at. It leaves the reader wanting more until the very unexpected, very horrifying end.
Now, as for this edition, I found it very meddlesome and cantankerous. The footnotes took particular pleasure in pointing out every mistake Wells made, whether with the timeline or in describing events. It was frustrating to read, as I didn't dare skip the notes because some of them were necessary to get definitions of words we are not familiar with today.
So, yes, read this book. Please. But no, don't get this version. Got it? Good!
Wells does a masterful job of leading the plot through several points of view. Some parts you see happen before you, some you only hear about and some you can only guess at. It leaves the reader wanting more until the very unexpected, very horrifying end.
Now, as for this edition, I found it very meddlesome and cantankerous. The footnotes took particular pleasure in pointing out every mistake Wells made, whether with the timeline or in describing events. It was frustrating to read, as I didn't dare skip the notes because some of them were necessary to get definitions of words we are not familiar with today.
So, yes, read this book. Please. But no, don't get this version. Got it? Good!
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