Author: Beliaev, Aleksandur (alt. Belyaev, Aleksandr)
Title: Chovekut, Koito Nameri Svoeto Litse [the Man Who Found His Face]
Description: Sofiia (Sofia), Narodna Kultura, 1963. Hardcover. First Bulgarian edition, translated from the first Russian; 8 x 5 1/2; pp. [6], 5-190, [2]; cloth-backed, pink paper over boards, illustrated in black; pictorial dust jacket; numerous, full-page, black-and-white drawings; minor rubbing to corners and tips of spine; small signature to upper margin of front board; previous owner's manuscript note to ffep; in very good or better condition. DJ with small nicks and closed cuts to edges; in good to very good condition. A delightful example of Bulgarian-Americana, the book was originally published in Russian in 1940. Aleksandr Beliaev (1884 - 1942) was a renowned Soviet science fiction author, often referred to as the Russian Jules Verne. A lawyer by education, Beliaev was paralized for several years from complications of tuberculosis, and while convalescing, he began writing poetry and later - science fiction novels. He refused to evacuate from him home in the town of Pushkin (a suburb of St. Petersburg) at the beginning of the German invasion and died of starvation under the Nazi occupation. In "The Man Who Found His Face," Beliaev told the story of American movie actor and comedian Tony Presto, who was very talented and beloved by the public, but also "deformed and incredibly ugly." With the help of one Doctor Zorn and his miracle cure, Presto was transformed into a handsome man, but his fans and even the woman he loved could not accept his new face. Furthermore, both the US Government and the powerful movie producers became envious of his money and his good looks and a law was passed that anybody, who "lost his face" would also lose all his worldy posessions. In retaliation, Presto stole the medicine and fed it to his enemies, turning the white Governor into an African-American and the millionaires into penniless wretches, to teach them what racism and hunger meant in the United States. Not in OCLC; not in the trade (as of September 2020). Ill.: 0. Very good 2.

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