L’Eve future (Tomorrow’s Eve)

1. 1.What do you think of this book? What seemed important in it?
   

2. 2.How would you analyze it formally? What is its genre?
   

3. 3.What does the title suggest to you?
   

4. 4.What is your impression of the narrator?
   

5. 5.Who or what is Hadaly? Is she like a woman? In what ways? How is she not like a woman?
   

6. 6.Who is Lord Ewald? Alicia Clary? Thomas Edison? And “Sowana”?
   

7. 7.What is this novel’s understanding of woman? Of life? Of the real? Of the ideal?
   

8. 8.Contrast what happens here to “The Sandman” and Coppélia, or Pygmalion. What exactly is this a fantasy of?
   

9. 9.What do you make of the technical details of Hadaly? The rings? The smoking? The coffin? The perfume? Eddison’s insistence that she is no different from an ordinary person?
   

10. 10. Analyze d’Isle-Adam’s prose style. Could you write like this?