The literary and scientific innovation of the novel begins with the title itself. If it was nevertheless the scientific dimension that initially attracted most attention-almost an inevitability during an age when science came to matter more than literature-it is its enduring literary power that has kept it alive after its original scientific basis has either eroded or faded into reality. Who which is why, more than a century after it first appeared, it still fascinates new generations of readers. Without wishing to seem paradoxical, it does seem fair to say that The Time Machine looks forward as much to A la Recherche du temps perdue as it does to Dr.
Wells's Time Machine (1895) lies in its extraordinary innovativeness, an innovativeness that is as literary as it is scientific.
ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES DISMISSED as a facile work of scientific fantasy and the progenitor of a seemingly endless series of literary as well as cinematic clones, the real significance of H.
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