person
Camille Flammarion
Flammarion
also: Фламмарион
French astronomer and prolific popularizer of astronomy (1842-1925), whose name is used generically in the Goldebaev piece as shorthand for the kind of popular-science writing on the stars and the cosmos that the unread driver Marov has never encountered.
Reading notes
- Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) §3619 Flammarions
Used generically (plural, lower-case in effect) for popular-astronomy writers of Flammarion's type, to underscore how alien Khlebopchuk's talk of stars and infinity is to the unread Marov.
- At the Manor §35 Flammarion's pen
Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) was a French astronomer and hugely popular writer on astronomy and the cosmos; invoking him as the fitting chronicler of a falling star is exactly the kind of secondhand, name-dropping erudition the story elsewhere shows Rashevich performing without substance behind it.