Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) was a French writer whose comic prose voyages to the Moon and Sun used speculative worlds to challenge contemporary ideas and institutions.

L'Autre Monde: A posthumously published pair of comic prose voyages by Cyrano de Bergerac, to the Moon and the Sun. This is the umbrella title commonly used for his two speculative voyages.
Voyage to the Moon: A fantastical journey to the Moon narrated in Cyrano de Bergerac's posthumous prose fiction. The lunar journey supplies his sharpest comic reversals of earthly customs and beliefs.
Molière: A French playwright and actor whose comedies became central to the classical French theatre. A disputed tradition connects Molière's play Don Juan with a scene from Cyrano's work.
Cyrano de Bergerac (play): Edmond Rostand's 1897 verse drama about a poet-soldier whose wit and long nose shape his romantic fate. Rostand's fictional hero is often mistaken for the writer whose name he bears.
Utopian literature: Writing that imagines an ideal or radically different society to examine political and social arrangements. Cyrano's other worlds satirize existing customs rather than simply presenting an ideal society.
Comic novel: A prose fiction form that uses humor, parody, or satire to expose human folly and social conventions. Cyrano's fantastic journeys draw on comic fiction to unsettle accepted beliefs.
Voyage to the Sun: A fantastical journey to the Sun in the second part of Cyrano de Bergerac's prose voyages. The solar journey extends the work's cosmic satire and speculative thought.
Pierre Gassendi: A French philosopher and astronomer who revived Epicurean atomism in the seventeenth century. Gassendi's atomist ideas belong to the intellectual world that Cyrano's fiction reworks.
Cyrano de Bergerac (film): A 1990 French film adaptation of Rostand's play, directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Gérard Depardieu. The film carried Rostand's stage character to a broad international audience.
Travel literature: Writing that recounts or imitates journeys to real or imagined places. His voyages borrow traveler's conventions while describing places no traveler could verify.

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A True StoryRelated: His celestial voyages continue the tradition of imaginative travel associated with Lucian.