Lomon, Charles
Entry updated 17 October 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1852-1923) French playwright and author of Les Atlantes, aventures des temps légendaires (portions in feuilleton form 1904 La Nouvelle Revue; 1905; trans Brian Stableford as The Last Days of Atlantis 2015) with Pierre-Barthélmy Gheusi. The tale treats the matter of Atlantis essentially in terms of fantasy, under the influence of earlier works like H Rider Haggard's She (1886) and C Cutcliffe Hyne's The Lost Continent (1900) (see She); but does so with fluency. The male warrior who becomes erotically involved with the Queen of Atlantis prefigures Robert E Howard's Conan, though there is no evidence of a direct connection. [JC]
Charles Lomon
born Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, France: 5 August 1852
died Paris: 14 March 1923
works (highly selected)
- Les Atlantes, aventures des temps légendaires (Paris: Éditions de La Nouvelle Revue, 1905) with Pierre-Barthélmy Gheusi [portions in feuilleton form first appeared 1904 La Nouvelle Revue: binding unknown]
- The Last Days of Atlantis (Encino, California: Black Coat Press, 2015) [trans by Brian Stableford of the above: pb/Mike Hoffman]
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