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Re: Hatteras and Les Foreceurs de blocus

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:59:25 +0200 (CEST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 ithompson~at~geog.gla.ac.uk wrote:

> Christian Robin has noted the similarities between Les Forceurs du
> blocus and Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant, especially the descriptions
> of the Clyde estuary (both published at approximately the same time).
> But equally it could be argued that there are close similarities with
> Captain Hatteras, published only two years later. Specifically the
> notion of launching a "mysterious" ship for a "mysterious" and secret
> destination was an almost identical literary device for "launching" the
> narrative, in effect recycled in three successive novels over a couple
> of years.

There's another similarity. Both the Delphin and the Forward have a crew
member on board, who turns out to be somebody else (Garry turns out to be
Hatteras, John Stiggs is really Jenny Halliburtt). The Duncan, of course,
also has its "mystery guest", Jacques Paganel.

Cheers,
Garmt.
Received on Mon 25 Jul 2005 - 22:59:32 IDT

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