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Re: La libert?, la musique et la mer

From: Jan Rychlík <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:17:50 +0200 (CEST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Dear Volker, Dear Bill,
thank you all for the information. It is good to know there is more consensus on the authorship of Une Ville flottante than on Édom.
Jan

> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: wbutcher <wbutcher~at~netvigator.com>
> Předmět: Re: La libert?, la musique et la mer
> Datum: 14.8.2008 03:12:44
> ----------------------------------------
> Ducrest, discovered by Volker, does contain much exclusive information on
> Verne's life, but is not always reliable. He was the first to cite any of
> Verne's logbooks; and does claim that the draft of Une Ville flottante is by
> Paul. However, in the 2nd edn of JVDB I've deleted the section where that claim
> is cited, because, since that date, Ph. Scheinhardt has revealed a dossier
> preparatoire, predating the manuscript of Une Ville flottante, apparently in
> Verne's hand, and containing all sorts of jottings and narratives. In sum, my
> impression remains that Paul may have contributed to some of the duller parts of
> the book, but there is little proof, apart from the fact that he generally
> contributed to the technical marine parts of the novels.
>
> Bill
> http://home.netvigator.com/~wbutcher/
> 1A, Kai Kuk Shue Ha, Luk Keng, NT, HONG KONG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf Of Jan
> Rychlík
> Sent: 13 August 2008 18:20
> To: Jules Verne Forum
> Subject: Re: La libert?, la musique et la mer
>
> I would like to return once again to the Paul writings.
>
> I seem to remember that there is a dispute over the authorship of Une ville
> flottante. According to Ducrest (if I am not mistaken), Paul was the real author
> of the novel, and Bill shares this opinion (sorry, Bill, if I do not remember
> well), while Volker´s biography of Verne does not pretend it and cites Poe´s
> Oblong case as a possible model for the story (and an apologize to Volker, if I
> am again mistaken).
>
> Are there any other indications than the (Ducrest) memoir of Verne?
>
> I see that the book is far from super, but it is also full of typical Vernian
> passion for steamers and sea travel. In the Verne-hetzel Correspondence, there
> is a mention of Hetzel´s dislike of the story and Vernes conviction that a real
> story can attract his readers. So I think he originally wrote a book of travels,
> but was forced to add a Poe-like story (far behind Poe´s quality). I have always
> thought that a merge of the novel with the Humbug would have been more plausible
> reworking of the (possible) original version of the novel.
>
> And there is in fact Verne´s diary of the travel in the Amiens Library.
>
> Jan
>
> > ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> > Od: <jcrovisier~at~free.fr>
> > Předmět: Re: La libert?, la musique et la mer
> > Datum: 13.8.2008 09:48:36
> > ----------------------------------------
> > Selon Ian Thompson <Ian.Thompson~at~ges.gla.ac.uk>:
> >
> > > 3 The Soc de Géo has two quite good photos of Chaffenjon's Orinoco 1885
> > > expedition in its collection...might be of interest as illustrations in you
> > > thesis.
> > > Regards,
> > > Ian
> >
> > I guess the whole set of photographs from Chaffanjon's Oronico expedition
> > is kept at the library of Société de Géographie.
> >
> > Some of them were shown last year in an exhibition at Bibliothèque de
> > France and are posted here:
> >
> > http://expositions.bnf.fr/socgeo/arret/11.htm
> > http://expositions.bnf.fr/socgeo/grand/50.htm
> > http://expositions.bnf.fr/socgeo/grand/51.htm
> > http://expositions.bnf.fr/socgeo/grand/52.htm
> > http://expositions.bnf.fr/socgeo/grand/53.htm
> > http://expositions.bnf.fr/socgeo/grand/54.htm
> > http://expositions.bnf.fr/socgeo/grand/231.htm
> > http://expositions.bnf.fr/socgeo/grand/241.htm
> >
> > If this has not been already done, it would be interesting to compare these
> > photographs (and the drawings made from them by Riou in Chaffanjon's book)
> > with the illustrations by Roux in Le Superbe Orénoque.
> >
> > Jacques Crovisier
> >
> >
> >
> >
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