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Re: Reading Jules Verne--any takers?

From: Bernhard Krauth <BGYKRAUTH~at~t-online.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:47:39 +0200
To: "JV Forum Zvi Har'El" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

I think the question of Norm was going to the point of "under 30" in nower days, and not in some other time where we've been in the teens (which is in my mind not far away, and my wife would say also not in my behaviour...).
When I was in the teens (1980s) almost everyone (here in Germany), old or young, knew the name of Jules Verne and most of them the best known works, althought a lot of them only by the films. If I am going to talk about Jules Verne today I very often have first to give an explanation of what person I am talking, because less and less people, especially younger ones, knew him. Mostly shocked I was some months ago in a library when I asked a young bookselling woman for a new edition of a Verne- novel and EVEN she never heard of Verne!! Working with books, selling them - and then even not knowing the best known authors of the world! I was really hit by that! I thought to ask her if she knows who Goethe was, but then - let it be...
No, my impression is, that due to the developements in our times the kids still read, but less, and the content of a book is important, not the writer behind it. Simply look at Harry Potter - the smallest number of its readers really look toward the life of the writer - even she's still alive... Today you make a good thing, the people pay you for that - that's it. If another doing better, you are out, he's doing the money. And so on...

Regards

Bernhard
Received on Tue 21 Sep 2004 - 10:47:58 IDT

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