L'homme illustré

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Ray Bradbury: L'homme illustré (French language, 1989)

251 pages

French language

Published Nov. 19, 1989

ISBN:
978-2-207-30003-9
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4 stars (1 review)

13 editions

Good Bradbury, but less than the Martian Chronicles

4 stars

A few years ago, I had borrowed The Illustrated man at our local media library. I read it entirely and loved it immensely.

Shortly thereafter, I found out that that edition was abridged. It contained, if I recall well, 6 short stories, out of the total 18.

As a completist, I don't like abridged novels, not any more than having a painting cut into pieces...

Therefore, I ordered the proper, full version and I just finished reading it - which took me some months, actually - because I was reading several other books, alternating between subjects and genres.

My overall impression is that it is less cohesive than Bradbury's Martian chronicles.

Indeed, it looks like a collection of short stories that didn't have enough in common to go into a specific book, so these 18 stories were placed into one novel, between a prologue and an epilogue, depicting the meeting …