With this publication I finish a series of three, in my opinion, the most important books of Herbert Wells. Overview of the novel "The War of the Worlds" and "Time Machine" you can read here and here.
"The Island of Dr. Moreau" is a nightmare dream embodied in quite realistic tropical scenery, where this "house of pain", where these beast-headed animals.
Already in my childhood, when I was reading The Island of Dr. Moreau, I was not impressed by the realism of this book, because even then it was clear that neither a panther nor a wild boar would be reincarnated here in these creatures and wearing animal heads.
"Professor Dowell's Head" by Alexander Belyayev is even more realistic with its extraordinary history. Remember, there were three heads, there were three heads and three experiments. One of them ended sadly, and Dowell got into the mites of evil. The theme of evil and in novel "The Invisible Man" is developed, how easily a person puts all his achievements of the mighty mind on the need of evil.
And when we talk about the "Island of Dr. Moreau", here originally an inhumane experiment, originally anti-human actions. It only masks a thirst, a curious one that knows no boundaries, does not recognize any laws of morality over oneself, the strength of human thought. Thought does not have a vector of morality, it can go anywhere, like a fantasy. And of course that would not seek to improve Dr. Moro in human breed, it was not necessary to do so, this is initially an incorrect approach.
Very well, these books are straightened up to such wonderful "mannequins", to such, rectilinear school language. These novels are much deeper, they are more symbolic, they are more interesting, in the original, as I read from the article by the translator Vitali Babenko, they are also excellent in terms of language.
Wells is still a great writer, not for nothing that he wrote several dozen volumes of works. He had a place to turn around, learn a style and experiment with the syllable. And these novels, they are, of course, brilliant written, they continue to stir the imagination of mankind. Without reference to these literary sources, a significant part of modern fantasy cinema and comics of literature, including modern science fiction, will be incomprehensible, because everyone looks back at the master, everyone looks back to the pioneer of style, to Herbert Wells.