Jules Verne Forum

<jvf@Gilead.org.il>

[Email][Members][Photos][Archive][Search][FAQ][Passwd][private]

RE: Verne anticipated

From: Christian Sánchez <chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 03:43:49 -0300
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>


1875 An Ideal City
 1) Town planning utopia
 1) All the descriptions of imaginary cities where the town planning is extrapolated, beginning with The City of the Sun, by CAMPANELLA (1623) or, even, PLATO

1877 Hector Servadac (Off on a Comet)
 1) numerous fragments of the Earth stick to a comet and travel the Solar system with it
 1) original concept [Cortázar suggests POE: The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, 1839]

1879 The Begum's Fortune
 1) gigantic cannon
 1) see 1865: From the Earth to the Moon (Verne was inspired by himself)

 2) putting into orbit of the howitzer
 2) see 1865

 3) utopia of France-Ville
 3) very numerous precedent utopias

(to be continued)

Regards,

Christian Sánchez
chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar
Rosario, Argentina
Received on Thu 16 Jan 2003 - 08:52:44 IST

hypermail 2.2.0 JV.Gilead.org.il
Copyright © Zvi Har’El
$Date: 2009/02/01 22:36:11 $$