Dune (novel)

See also: Dune (homonymy)

Dune (original title: Dune ) is a Romance of Science-fiction writes by Frank Herbert, published in the United States of America in 1965.

This article speaks only about the novel and not about its continuations: the Messiah of Dune , Children of Dune , the Emperor God of Dune , Heretics of Dune , the House of the Mothers . Let us specify that at the beginning, it was to be a trilogy ( Dune , the Messiah of Dune and Children of Dune ). This novel is sometimes cut out into two (Dune I and Dune II) or three parts respectively containing 22,15 and 11 chapters.

Summary

The history of the first volume takes as a starting point the life of Lawrence of Arabia. Frank Herbert obviously took as a starting point the arabo-Islamic culture.

The Cycle of Dune

See also: Cycle of Dune

Adaptations

  • In 1975, Alejandro Jodorowsky starts to work on an adaptation of the novel. The project was to see the participation of Orson Welles, with decorations of Salvador Dali, Moebius and H.R. Giger, and musics of Pink Floyd (which worked with pieces) and Magma. But the project turns short, the producers releasing Jodorowsky.

  • Dune is the film adaptation of the novel by David Lynch left in 1984. No bond with the preliminary works of Jodorowsky.
    • the Californian group Toto contributed to the sound screen of film.
  • Two televisual series in 2000 and 2003: Dune and the Children of Dune
  • In 1992, the French editor Cryo adapts the first novel concerned video named Dune (video game)

Traditional of the science fiction

This novel is regarded as a great classic of the Science-fiction in the following reference books:

  • Annick Beguin, 100 principal titles of the science fiction , Cosmos 2000,1981;

  • Jacques Sadoul, Anthology of the literature of science fiction , Ramsay, 1981;
  • Jacques Goimard and Claude Aziza, Encyclopedia of pocket of the science fiction. Guide reading , Presses Pocket, coll “Science fiction”, n°5237, 1986;
  • Denis Guiot, the Science fiction , Massin, coll “the world of…”, 1987;
  • Science fiction. The ideal library , Albin Michel, 1988;
  • Investigation of Fanzine Carnage society man near his readers, 1989;
  • Lorris Murail, the Masters of the science fiction , Bordered, coll “Compact”, 1993;
  • Stan Barets, science-fictionnaire , Denoël, coll “Presence of the future”, 1994;
  • ideal Library of the webzine cosmic Cockroach.

Internal bond

  • Dune (imaginary world)

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