States and the Moon Empire. Sirano de Bergerac S.

Erkül Savinen Sirano de Bergerac (1619–1655) - French playwright, poet, writer, one of the predecessors of science fiction, philosopher. In addition to the novel “Another Light, or the State and the Moon empire” in the translation of E. Gunst, the selected letters and samples of the poetic work of Sirano, as well as the articles of Nodier and Gauthier, thanks to which de Bergerak became known to the literary world of the XIX century, and The “preface” by Henri Lebre, friend and publisher Sirano, who tells enough about the life of the poet. Compiled, author of the introductory article and translator of poems, letters, articles and “preface” - Mikhail Yasnov.