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Re: genre "robinsonade"

From: thomas mccormick <tom_amity~at~hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 07:12:10 +0000
To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il

Yes. Jan's right about Hector Servadac. It's a send-up of the robinsonade
genre, and when such a supposedly "new" genre receives a satirical treatment
it can be said to have "arrived"!

William Butcher points out that Verne's "Edom" (L'Eternal Adam), and indeed
the whole genre of stories about cyclical destruction of society, or of the
earth, and its repopulation by the lonely survivors, is a further
development of the robinsonade. For the cycle-of-destruction-and-renewal
story, of course, the original mentor is the Great Flood story (as in
Noah)---and the fact that almost every society in human history has a Great
Flood story is an illustration of just how basic the genre is.

Look at a popular twentieth century writer of fantasy-adventure stories and
you'll bump into the robinsonade genre for sure.

Tom

>From: Jan Rychlík <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>
>Reply-To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
>Subject: Re: genre "robinsonade"
>Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:02:48 +0200 (CEST)
>
>>Only twice did Jules Verne write a preface to a Voyage Extraordinaire, and
>>both times the VE was a Robinsonade (2 ans, 2e patrie). He was clearly
>>very fond of the genre.
>>
>>Garmt.
>
>In 2 ans Verne mentions Cooper's "Crater" as a robinsonade featuring a
>whole community of robinsons. And In Magellanie was inspired by this book,
>so perhaps it should be considered a robinsonade also.
>
>And don't you think that Hector Servadac is, in fact, a robinsonade too?
>
>Sincerely
>
>Jan Rychlik
Received on Sat 09 Jul 2005 - 10:12:19 IDT

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