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Re: Newbie questions

From: Davide Rossi <daviderossi~at~libero.it>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:36:13 +0200
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Jean-Pierre Boutin wrote:
> Dear David and Fiends,

> The question has been largely debated in papers and books devoted to
> the JV and his novels (in French but also probably in other
> languages). My opinion is that JV -a Catholic belonging to a fanatic
> Catholic family- was, as most non-Jews bourgeois of his time(*),
> anti-Semitic and probably less than the mean. In fact this
> anti-Semitism appeared in very few novels (Martin Paz, a youth short
> story for the "Musée des familles", and Hector Servadac), possibly
> because Hetzel, who was atheist, deleted from the manuscripts
> submitted by JV any attack against Jews and religion in general (for
> evident commercial reasons) and even added allusions to God, the
> providence ... etc. But why the character of Isaac Hakabut? In short
> probably because, when writing Servadac, JV was really angry against
> Hebrews! The reason is that he was somewhat harassed by a Jew Polish
> who pretended that JV was his cousin (or other relative) that
> emigrate from Poland to France years ago, because "Verne" is the
> translation in French of his Polish family name... The first version
> of Servadac published in the "Magasin" is generally said to be by far
> more anti-Semitic than the book version. See the book of Marc
> Soriano : "Jules Verne, le cas Verne" for severe analysis of the JV
> antisemitism, further biographs are less drastic.
> Hope this will help
> Jean-Pierre
> (*) Things have changed (at least in most developed countries ...)
> fortunately

Thanks, this was the kind of explanation I was thinking about.
Il'll searh for the text you mentioned :-)

bye,
Davide
Received on Tue 09 Sep 2003 - 16:37:24 IDT

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