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Re: List of his friends... (Project-name wanted)

From: volker dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:38:37 +0200
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Dear all,

a list of more than 700 people connected to Jules Verne has been published (with their functions and living dates) in the index of the quoted persons in my book "Jules Verne. Eine kritische Biographie" (Düsseldorf: Artemis & Winkler 2005), pp. 519-540, from "Edmond About" to "Frédéric Zurcher".

Best regards,

Volker


> Dear Peter,
>
> That's great! are you limiting it to those he probably met or all real
> people connected with Verne...? What about his relatives? (a real minefield)
>
>
> How about something like "Jules Verne's Networks: His Friends and
> Acquaintances" or Who's Who in Verne: People he Knew/in his Life?
>
> Do send me a list of problems in JVDB. There are misprints, internal
> contradictions and pure mistakes, I know. But a new revised edition is out
> in paperback in April, so I hope to eliminate many of them.
>
> A reminder: do contact Volker since he has, I believe, a list with dates of
> birth.
>
> If you would like to send me privately the first drafts, I'd be pleased to
> offer advice, before you throw it open to general consumption...
>
> Bill
> wbutcher~at~netvigator.com
> http://home.netvigator.com/~wbutcher/
> 1/F, 46A, Lung Mei Village, Taipo, Hong Kong
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf Of
> Peter Harold
> Sent: 19 October 2006 16:01
> To: Jules Verne Forum
> Subject: Re: List of his friends... (Project-name wanted)
>
> Dear friends!
>
> Just a short report...
> I am thankful to Mr Butchers permission to me for
> using his recent biography about Jules Verne as a
> source for my list of... well, we could say "In the
> circle around Jules Verne" (is it "Liason du Jules
> Verne in French?). You know what I mean.
>
> This means I have spent some evenings re-reading Bills
> book, and listing all the names that comes through.
> The information is name, occupation/title,
> birth/death, time of event when the person was
> included JV's life), and a short note that describes
> the person.
>
> This project have rised several problem to me. First
> of all, there is **** a lot of new information that
> contradicts earlier English biographies about Jules
> Verne. So my own "book" about Verne have to be edited
> a little bit. I am very happy I didn't printed my
> stuff earlier...
>
> The second problem, which I hope will be less
> difficult, is to with a humble letter send Bill a
> message of the errors I find in his text. Well, it
> wouldn't be many pages, but at least my suggestions of
> correction does prove I have read his book :-)
>
> The third problem is how my project with this list
> should continue. Monsieur Dekiss sent a courriel
> earlier this month and promised that the Centre are
> willing to help. I sure know my limits as a
> researcher, so I guess I am just the starter of the
> list. So far as the list is done know, I feel that it
> could be well worth to spend energy to complete it
> with more information. And I feel it neccesary. For
> reasons of style and space, Bill haven't included
> complete information about every person who figure in
> his book. I hope he have more (first hand-)
> information that was left over when the biography was
> written. Other schoolars input is also thankful.
>
> As I have done now with the project, it is clearly a
> "cut and paste" (with my pen) from Bills book (I try
> to not cut too much, but I am tempted), but the list
> creates new questions about people around Jules Verne.
>
> I will continue to take names from Bill's book, and
> later read through the other biographies that I have
> access to (they are not too many). The list could be
> published for the members of this Forum and the
> Centre, and we could have a discussion about what is
> true or fake in it.
>
> To me, I would like to have a proper name of this
> project. Any ideas?
>
> Best regards
> Peter Harold
>
>
>
> --- wbutcher <wbutcher~at~netvigator.com> skrev:
>
> > Bonjour.
> > > This would be an excellent idea, although the jury
> > is still out on some of
> > them.
>

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Volker Dehs, Eisenbahnstr. 9, D-37073 Göttingen. Tel.: 0551 / 38 13 088
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