Edwin Abbott Abbott

Flatland (Annotated) Edwin Abbott Abbott

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The first thing that catches Flatland's attention is its full title: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. For the moment, let's ignore the questionable Spanish translation, which turns Flatland into Planilandia (pure eagerness for the translator to play a leading role) and understands that English romance is not a romance, but a novel (simple ignorance). But also, in its original language, it is difficult to define Flatland as a romance, since less than half of the book presents a narration with something similar to a character, while most of it is a treatise about the world called Flatland. The first part, which includes historical, sociological and customs details, presents the reader with a two-dimensional world from the point of view of a square, being that Flatland inhabits. They are about 80 pages that look like intermediate chapters of Moby Dick (assuming that Moby Dick was a Victorian science fiction work) or some preamble to the Lord of the Rings that Tolkien liked to write about - yes, with a fraction of the creator's detail from Middle Earth. We discovered a society in which a family can advance from the lowest strata to the aristocracy, now by genetic fortune, now by repulsive methods of Galtonian eugenics. Picturesque norms are prescribed for women, being who is born and lives without distinguishable physical attributes.