Cyrano de Bergerac y el relato de viajes

Abstract

This article presents Cyrano de Bergerac’s Voyage dans la lune as one of the most important planetary utopias in the modern age. First, the text handles the construction of Cyrano de Bergerac himself as a literary myth; afterwards it discusses Bergerac’s utopia and how it has been transformed and mutilated throughout the history of its publication. Cyrano’s tale is an excuse to question the astronomical theory of Ptolemy, in favor of thesis such as Copernicus’s, Galileo’s or Kepler’s. Throughout Voyage dans la lune several biblical stories are criticized and caricaturized, and so are the Christian moral, the belief in miracles belief, the notion of immortality and the existence of God.