Verne's Cerntury
March 23, 2005 11:44 AM Subscribe
Mythmaker of the Machine Age. In the statue erected above his grave in Amiens, in Picardy, Jules Verne, who died exactly 100 years ago, resembles God. He is, after all, the second-most-translated author on earth, after Agatha Christie. To celebrate the anniversary, there's a Verne exhibition at the Maritime Museum in Paris, one of a series of events from Paris to the western city of Nantes, where Verne was born on Feb. 8, 1828, to the northern town of Amiens, where he died on March 24, 1905. His many fans, some of them quite famous, will be treated to exhibits, concerts, films and shows in Verne's honor. “Underground City”, a lost classic written by Verne and never before published unabridged in English, emerges this month in not one but two new unique editions.
100 years later, questions remain about his life: Why did he have two homes in Amiens? Why did he burn all his private papers? Why was he shot in the foot by his nephew, Gaston, in 1886? Gaston was locked in an asylum for 54 years after his attack on L'Oncle Jules. Was Gaston, in fact, Verne's natural son? More inside.
posted by matteo at 11:46 AM on March 23, 2005
If you don't want to read a Google cached rainbow of highlighted words, try this version of the above link: 100 years later, questions remain about his life.
posted by lowlife at 11:51 AM on March 23, 2005
posted by lowlife at 11:51 AM on March 23, 2005
This is very cool - thanks for the links, Matteo.
posted by wanderingmind at 12:32 PM on March 23, 2005
posted by wanderingmind at 12:32 PM on March 23, 2005
I love the pigeonshit-in-the-eye visual described in the second paragraph...very funny. Thanks matteo, almost too much information on a legendary writer.
posted by schyler523 at 4:42 PM on March 23, 2005
posted by schyler523 at 4:42 PM on March 23, 2005
Amidst maelstroms of change, churning ever faster, humans gape - ever more bewildered.
A singular bill arrives, the meal barely begun, provoking something less than joy : a harbinger of a future, looming.
looming ? Oh my. We shriek in terror and bolt towards a Valium mediated Chuck-E-Cheese athon of experience in which scientifically enhanced organs embrace to better enhance workplace productivity.
posted by troutfishing at 9:09 PM on March 23, 2005
A singular bill arrives, the meal barely begun, provoking something less than joy : a harbinger of a future, looming.
looming ? Oh my. We shriek in terror and bolt towards a Valium mediated Chuck-E-Cheese athon of experience in which scientifically enhanced organs embrace to better enhance workplace productivity.
posted by troutfishing at 9:09 PM on March 23, 2005
thanks, matteo.
I like him, but since i read this one, can't bring myself to read any more of his stuff (the stereotyping and anti-semitism really got to me)
posted by amberglow at 9:15 PM on March 23, 2005
I like him, but since i read this one, can't bring myself to read any more of his stuff (the stereotyping and anti-semitism really got to me)
posted by amberglow at 9:15 PM on March 23, 2005
the good folks of Libération today published a massive special section on Verne:
centenaire
Dans le sillage du capitaine Nemo
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Un siècle après la mort de Jules Verne, retour au Crotoy, où le héros de «Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers» est sorti de son imagination.
posted by matteo at 9:24 AM on March 24, 2005
centenaire
Dans le sillage du capitaine Nemo
pix
Un siècle après la mort de Jules Verne, retour au Crotoy, où le héros de «Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers» est sorti de son imagination.
posted by matteo at 9:24 AM on March 24, 2005
I never would have bothered to read Verne if it wasn't for Raymond Roussel.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 9:56 AM on March 24, 2005
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 9:56 AM on March 24, 2005
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