Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin De Grainville was a French writer who penned a very important, seminal work of fantastic literature: Le Dernier Homme. Le Dernier Homme [The Last Man] was possibly the first novel ever written on the now-popular theme of the Last Man on Earth. In it, the narrator meets the Incarnation of Time who tells him the saga of Omegare, the Last Man on Earth. A bleak vision of the future emerges, of a time when a Dying Earth has become totally sterile.

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  • Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin De Grainville was a French writer who penned a very important, seminal work of fantastic literature: Le Dernier Homme. Le Dernier Homme [The Last Man] was possibly the first novel ever written on the now-popular theme of the Last Man on Earth. In it, the narrator meets the Incarnation of Time who tells him the saga of Omegare, the Last Man on Earth. A bleak vision of the future emerges, of a time when a Dying Earth has become totally sterile. Omegare travels to Brazil where the last men have found refuge. Ormus, the so-called "God of Earth", tries to manipulate Omegare to force him to him father a new breed of monstrous cannibals, doomed to live in eternal darkness, but the vision of this awful future terrifies Omegare, who, instead, chooses death. The saga of Omegare gave rise to one of the first unauthorized spin-offs in literary history. In 1832, Auguste-François Creuzé de Lesser published Le Dernier Homme, poème imité de Grainville [The Last Man, Poem Inspired By Grainville], an expanded version of Grainville's work, including a description of aerial cities and a failed attempt at leaving Earth to colonize another planet. The character of Omegar (this time, without an "e") returned again in L'Unitéide ou la Femme Messie [The Uniteide or The Messiah Woman] (1858), a vast philosophico-poetic saga, self-published by Paulin Gagne. L'Unitéide took place in the year 2000, when according to the author, there were only twelve countries. In the book, God sends the eponymous female messiah to save the world. Finally, the following year, Paulin Gagne's wife, Élise Gagne, wrote Omégar ou Le Dernier Homme [Omegar, or The Last Man] (1859), yet another poetic epic about the final days of the Earth.
  • Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin De Grainville, né en 1746 et décédé en 1805 est un écrivain français que l'on retient pour son roman, Le dernier homme. Le dernier homme est un exemple précoce de littérature de Science-Fiction/fantastique qui met en scène Omegare, le dernier survivant de l'humanité sur une terre stérile et mourante. Ormus, qui se prétend dieu de la terre tente d'amener Omegare à engendrer une nouvelle race d'êtres cannibales monstrueux destinés à vivre dans les ténèbres. Omegare préfère se donner la mort. Le dernier homme a inspiré trois autres écrits : Le Dernier Homme, poème imité de Grainville, par Auguste Creuzé de Lesser, qui décrit notamment des cités aériennes et la tentative des hommes pour quitter leur planète L'Unitéide ou la Femme Messie, par Paulin Gagne Omégar ou Le Dernier Homme, par Élise Gagne
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  • Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin De Grainville was a French writer who penned a very important, seminal work of fantastic literature: Le Dernier Homme. Le Dernier Homme [The Last Man] was possibly the first novel ever written on the now-popular theme of the Last Man on Earth. In it, the narrator meets the Incarnation of Time who tells him the saga of Omegare, the Last Man on Earth. A bleak vision of the future emerges, of a time when a Dying Earth has become totally sterile.
  • Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin De Grainville, né en 1746 et décédé en 1805 est un écrivain français que l'on retient pour son roman, Le dernier homme. Le dernier homme est un exemple précoce de littérature de Science-Fiction/fantastique qui met en scène Omegare, le dernier survivant de l'humanité sur une terre stérile et mourante.
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  • Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville
  • Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville
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