CARROLL, Lewis

CARROLL, Lewis
   Pseudonym of UK mathematician and writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), whose famous children's stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), an early example of the novel whose "moves" are based on a game of chess, have had a profound impact on a wide range of writers. It has been argued by Brian W. ALDISS, among others, that the underlying logic of these "nonsense" adventures has provided a significant model for much of sf's typical reorderings of reality - certainly in most sf novels whose heroes' PARANOIA about reality turns out to be justified. Both novels were assembled much later, and very usefully, as The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (omni 1960 US; rev vt More Annotated Alice 1990 US) ed Martin GARDNERGilbert Adair's Alice Through the Needle's Eye * (1984) was, interestingly, not a Wonderland parody but a genuine continuation.LC's mathematical and logical fantasies, as found in A Tangled Tale (1886), have also had repercussions in sf.
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   Other works include: Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (coll 1869); The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits (1876 chap), Sylvie and Bruno (1867 Aunt Judy's Magazine as "Bruno's Revenge"; exp 1889) and its sequel (also derived from the story), Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893); The Wasp in a Wig (1977 chap), a portion of Through the Looking-Glass cut at proof stage and lost until 1977.
   About the author: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood; Victoria through the Looking-Glass (1945; vt Lewis Carroll 1954 UK) by Derek Hudson; Aspects of Alice (1971) ed Robert Phillips.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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