Человек амфибия - Amphibian, 1928 - Professor Dowell's Head, 1979 (IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE) / (Der Amphibienmensch - Der Kopf des Prof. Dowell / / Человек амфибия. Голова профессора Доуэля) (Russian) Hardcover – 2005. «Челове́к-амфи́бия» — научно-фантастический роман о человеке, способном жить под водой, написанный Александром Беляевым в 1927. Роман был впервые опубликован в 1928 г. в журнале «Вокруг света» "Amphibian Man" -- um romance de ficção científica sobre um homem (Ichthyander) capaz de viver sob a água; escrito em 1927 por Alexander Belyaev. |...| Amphibian Man (rus. Человек-амфибия) is a science fiction adventure novel by the Soviet Russian writer Alexander Beliaev. It was published in 1928: Argentinean doctor Salvator, a scientist and a maverick surgeon, makes a dying indigenous boy, his son, "Ichthyander" (Russian: Ихтиандр, Ichtiandr) (Greek etymology: "Fish"+ "Man") a life-saving transplant - a set of shark gills. The experiment was a success but it limited the young man's ability to interact with the world outside his ocean environment. He has to spend much of his time in water. Pedro Zurita, local pearl gatherer, learns about Ichthyander and tries to exploit boy's superhuman diving abilities. Similar to other works by Beliaev, the book investigates the possibilities of physical survival under extreme conditions, as well as the moral integrity of scientific experiments. It also touches on socialist ideas of improving living conditions for the world's poor'.' |...| Professor Dowell's Head (Голова Профессора Доуэля) is a 1925 science fiction novel by Russian author Alexander Belyayev: Professor Dowell and his assistant surgeon Dr. Kern are working on medical problems including life support in separated body parts. Dr. Kern kills Dowell (in a set up car / asthma accident). Professor Dowell's head is now kept alive and used by Dr. Kern for extraction of scientific secrets. Continuing his experiments, Dr. Kern obtains a head of a young woman, which he keeps in a similar setup for a while before transplanting it to a new body. That body belongs to the girlfriend of Dowell's son / of his friend. Dr. Kern is anxious to announce himself as the inventor. But Dowell's son helps his father's head to get in front of the cameras. The head of professor Dowell tells all and dies. Dr. Kern, disgraced, commits suicide'.'
Человек амфибия - Голова профессора Доуэля
Alexander Beliaev
[Moscow] AST / Astrel
2005
348 páginas
11h 36m
ISBN-10: 532901283X
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Alexander Romanovich Belyaev
Alexander Belyaev was born in Smolensk in the family of an Orthodox priest. His father, after losing two other children (Alexander's sister Nina died at childhood from sarcoma and his brother Vasiliy, a veterinary student, drowned during a boat trip), wanted him to continue the family tradition and enrolled Alexander into Smolensk seminary. Belyaev, on the other hand, didn't feel particularly religious and even became an atheist in seminary. After graduating he didn't take his vows and enrolled into a law school. While he studied law his father died and he had to support his mother and other family by giving lessons and writing for theater. After graduating from the school in 1906 Belyaev became a practicing lawyer and made himself a good reputation. In that period his finances markedly improved, and he traveled around the world extensively as a vacation after each successful case. During that time he continued to write, albeit on small scale. Literature, however, proved increasingly appealing to him, and in 1914 he left law to concentrate on his literary pursuits. However, at the same time, at the age of 30, Alexander became ill with tuberculosis. Treatment was unsuccessful; the infection spread to his spine and resulted in paralysis of the legs. Belyaev suffered constant pain and was paralysed for six years. His wife left him, not wanting to care for the paralyzed. In search for the right treatment he moved to Yalta together with his mother and old nanny. During his convalescence, he read the work of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and began to write poetry in his hospital bed. By 1922 he had overcome the disease and tried to find occupation in Yalta. He served a brief stint as a police inspector, tried other odd jobs such as a librarian, but life remained difficult, and in 1923 he moved to Moscow where he started to practice law again, as a consultant for various Soviet organizations. At the same time Belyaev began his serious literary activity as writer of science fiction novels. In 1925 his first novel, Professor Dowell's Head (Голова Профессора Доуэля) was published. From 1931 he lived in Leningrad with his wife and oldest daughter; his youngest daughter died of meningitis in 1930, aged six. In Leningrad he met H. G. Wells, who visited the USSR in 1934. In the last years of his life Belyaev lived in the Leningrad suburb of Pushkin (formerly Tsarskoye Selo). At the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War he refused to evacuate because he was recovering after an operation that he had undergone a few months earlier.
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