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Re: Verne: invented citations in the VE?

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 14:49:58 -0700
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Okay, all, if that's the kind of "invented citation" that Terry meant, we can't leave out the "two-volume work, in quarto, *The Mysteries of the Great Submarine Depths," which Aronnax says he has published in France. And in 20K he is of course working on his revised edition. I'm sure that if that's the kind of thing Terry wants, we can pile up more titles or at least references, allusions, etc. Cheers! Walter James Miller

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur B. Evans" <aevans2~at~tds.net>
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 8:18 am
Subject: Re: Verne: invented citations in the VE?

> Among Verne's "invented" scientific or historical references (they are
> rare), one might count Lidenbrock's wholly imaginary book _Traité de
> Cristallographie transcendante_ cited in Chapter 1 of _Voyage au
> centre de
> la terre_:
>
> "Aussi le nom de Lidenbrock retentissait avec honneur dans les
> gymnases et
> les associations nationales. MM. Humphry Davy, de Humboldt, les
> capitainesFranklin et Sabine, ne manquèrent pas de lui rendre
> visite à leur passage à
> Hambourg. MM. Becquerel, Ebelmen, Brewater, Dumas, Milne-
> Edwards, aimaient
> à le consulter sur des questions les plus palpitantes de la
> chimie. Cette
> science lui devait d'assez belles découvertes, et, en 1853, il
> avait paru à
> Leipzig un _Traité de Cristallographie transcendante_, par le
> professeurOtto Lidenbrock, grand in-folio avec planches, qui
> cependant ne fit pas ses
> frais."
>
> One might also cite Lidenbrock's next book, cited at the very end
> of the
> novel, entitled (strangely enough) _Voyage au centre de la terre_!
> Such
> citations blur the lines between fiction and non-fiction and--
> along with a
> variety of other techniques that Verne uses to build
> verisimilitude--are
> supremely self-referential.
>
> Best,
> Art
>
>
>
>
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