Manuel de Pedrolos 1975 Trajecte 'Final journey' collection of short stories contains a story 'El regressiu' - 'The regressive' set in a dystopian future with strict birth control in which a man starts regressing in age when he hits 78 and dies as an infant. is Mr F.' features a man who regresses from adulthood to infancy when his wife becomes pregnant. In 1921, British novelist Oliver Onions published a novel, The Tower of Oblivion, about a man of 45 who begins to age backward, to grow younger.ДЄ story with a similar plot was published in 1921 by the Austrian author Roda in Die sieben Leidenschaften The seven tempers Rikola Verlag, Vienna 1922 under the title 'Antonius de Padua Findling'. Everything fades to darkness shortly after.ДЇitzgerald, in his introduction to the story, remarks that he came across a similar plot in Samuel Butlers Note-Books several weeks after publishing Benjamin Button. His memory fades away to the point where he cannot remember anything except his nurse. After kindergarten, Benjamin slowly begins to lose memory of his earlier life. Eventually, Roscoe has a child of his own who later attends kindergarten with Benjamin. He lives with Roscoe, who treats him sternly, and forces Benjamin to call him 'uncle.' As the years progress, Benjamin grows from a moody teenager into a child. However, during his junior and senior years he is only 16 years old, too weak to play football and barely able to cope with the academic work.ДЄfter graduation, Benjamin returns home, only to learn that his wife has moved to Italy. His first year there is a great success: he dominates in football and takes revenge against Yale for having rejected him years before. In 1910, Benjamin, now looking like a 20-year-old, turns over control of his company to his son, Roscoe, and enrolls at Harvard University. He retires from the army to focus on his company, and receives a medal. Bored at home, he enlists in the SpanishвЂ“American War in 1898 and achieves great triumph in the military, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Years later, Benjamins business has been successful, but he is tired of Hildegarde because her beauty has faded and she nags him. Hildegarde mistakes Benjamin for a 50-year-old brother of Roger Button she prefers older men and marries him six months later, but remains ignorant of his condition. He meets the young Hildegarde Moncrief, a daughter of General Moncrief, and falls in love with her. In 1880, when Benjamin is 20, his father gives him a control of Roger Button & Co. When Benjamin turns 20, the Button family realizes that he is aging backwards. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities.ДЄt the age of 18, Benjamin enrolls in Yale College, but is sent home by officials, who think he is a 50-year-old lunatic. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with childrens toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of an 80-year-old man, already capable of speech. The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

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