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RE: Some questions about Verne

From: William Butcher <wbutcher~at~netvigator.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:48:59 +0800
To: <F.I.SCHILTZ~at~soton.ac.uk>
Cc: "'Jules Verne Forum'" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Bonjour Françoise,

 

These are all good questions.

 

For your second question, most francophone commentators say Michel wrote
2889 directly in English. However, his English was very poor (cf. the
English in Barsac; cf also Art Evans's article on the Vernes'
franglais), so this is a manifest impossibility. The English of 2889
does have some Gallicisms (see
http://home.netvigator.com/~wbutcher/books/vjcs.htm for details), but is
nearly of native-speaker standard, so must have been translated by
person(s) unknown.

 

For your last question, remember that it is publishers who generally
decide on titles, although sometimes they listen to suggestion from
authors … From my memory, the title was decided on only after 1905, but
I could easily be wrong.

 

Vous souhaitant bonne continuation!

 

Bill

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf
Of Françoise Schiltz
Sent: 10 December 2002 08:58
To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il (Jules Verne Forum)
Subject: Some questions about Verne

 

Hello,

 

I am a first year PhD student (from Luxembourg) at the university of
Southampton, UK, and I will be doing my thesis on the adaptation process
from novel to screen, taking Jules Verne's novels and their filmic
adaptations as my case-study. I am still at an early stage in my
research and would really appreciate some clarification on the following
issues. Whereas I read about P-J Hetzel and Michel Verne's roles in the
creation and reception of Jules Verne's novels and short stories, I am
not sure to what extent Verne modified Paschal Grousset's manuscripts of
Les 500 Millions de la Begum and L'Etoile du Sud. Did he re-write them
entirely or only change certain parts? Also, did Michel Verne write the
short story In the year 2889 in English or did somebody else translate
the story from French to English before it was first published in the
American magazine The Forum? Finally, did Jules Verne choose the title
Hier et Demain for a planned short story collection or did his son think
of that name when he published the collection in 1910? Sorry for asking
all these questions! I am really interested in questions about
authorship and control and would like to get the information right. As I
am busy putting a filmography of Verne inspired films together, I would
also appreciate if anyone has any information or links that you think
might be important or interesting for me.

 

Thank you for your time and help,

 

Françoise Schiltz

 

 
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