Alexander Belyaev: The Amphibian Man

This book includes two novels by the founder of Soviet science fiction, Alexander Belyaev — "The Amphibian Man" (1928) and "The Man Who Found His Face" (1940) — featuring protagonists who undergo astonishing metamorphoses due to the achievements of modern medicine, forever changing their destinies. Young Ichthyander — undoubtedly the most famous character in Belyaev's prose — gained the ability to live in the aquatic environment as a result of a daring experiment performed by his adoptive father, the Argentine surgeon Salvator. This element offers him harmony with nature and a meeting with the beautiful Guttiere, yet simultaneously becomes his curse, separating the amphibian man from his beloved and from the human race forever. The hero of the second novel, American actor Antonio Presto, an ugly dwarf with comical gestures and facial expressions, a comedian by trade and a tragedian at heart, rejected by a vain Hollywood diva and tired of being a source of constant laughter, decides to radically transform his appearance, unaware of the dramatic changes this will bring to his life...

Author: Alexander Belyaev

Pages: 416 (newsprint). Paperback

Dimensions: 180x115x17 mm

Series: Azbooka-Classics