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Re: Jules Verne et Elisée Reclus...

From: Jan Rychlík <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:17:36 +0100 (CET)
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Dear Friends,

In an anarchist - ugh! - article (Aurélien Douguet: "La nera bandiera di Capitan Nemo", Rivista Anarchica, Dec 1998 - Jan 1999, http://www.anarca-bolo.ch/a-rivista/250/29.htm) there is a bit about Verne and Reclus. I don't know Italian, but - and I beg Italians for pardon - I hope I comprehend well that:

1) The geographical documentation of Verne's books came from the magazine Le Tour du Monde published by Edouard Charton, but [1st sic: Jean-Pierre Boutin told us Reclus' articles appeared in the magazine] Verne admired Reclus, and cited him on numerous occassions in his books, particularly in LE CHÂTEAU DES CARPATHES [indeed, even four times in chapters I, III and VI; also in L'ILLE A HELICE and in LE SUPERBE ORENOQUE].

2) In the interview with Robert Sherard, Verne said he had the complete works bof Reclus in his library. [The 1894 interview: "I have all Reclus’s works—I have a great admiration for Élisée Reclus (...)"]

3) Accoring to certain Edmundo Marcussi, Reclus may have [?] introduced Verne to Kropotkin and his geographical and political principles may have [?] influenced the geographical documentation on Siberia for Michel Strogoff [2nd sic: How could anarchist political thinking influence a geographical documentation, the more so for a novel with the duty to czar as a major theme?]

Well, I think, that the wish is father to the thought. I remember that the communist biographies of Verne available in Czech also used Verne's acquaintanceship with Reclus (and Grousset, which, I think, never existed) as a prove of Verne's leftist political thinking.

Sincerely

Jan Rychlik

Here the respective parapgraph in original:

Per la documentazione geografica, Verne attingeva soprattutto da Le Tour du Monde di Edouard Charton, ma fequentava e ammirava Elisée Reclus, che cita a piů riprese, soprattutto nel Castello dei Carpazi. In un'intervista al giornalista americano R.H. Sherard, confidň di possedere l'opera completa di Reclus. E Marie Marc, la nipote di Reclus, ricordava con fervore uno dei personaggi di Verne, Mrs Branican, una delle rare eroine della letteratura di viaggio e d'avventura dell'epoca. Secondo Edmundo Marcussi, Reclus avrebbe presentato Kropotkin a Jules Verne e il principe, geografo e anarchico avrebbe fornito allo scrittore la documentazione geografica e politica sulla Siberia, che serviva per la stesura di Michele Strogoff.
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