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Re: Chapters in Mistress Branican

From: Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:52:17 -0800 (PST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

This is rather of interest to us on this side of the Atlantic. Back in the Sep 2006 issue of the NAJVS journal, Extraordinary Voyages, we reprinted a short story credited to JV entitled "A Tale of a Hat" originally published in the November 1892 issue of Short Stories. (It was first copyrighted by the Author’s Alliance of New York on November 12, 1891.) "A Tale of a Hat" weaves together the particular chapter in question along with bits from elsewhere in the novel.
 
Similarly, in June 2007, we reprinted Cascabel; or, TheClown’s Face: A Story of a Money Box and a Love Matter in California, from the Boston Sunday Herald, Feb. 23, 1890.
 
Both these are among a variety of partly-bogus stories published under the JV byline in various American journals at the time. The narratives have recognizable roots in Verne, sometimes using major portions of his works, but also add entirely new elements to create a fundamentally original work. 
 
Brian Taves

--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd <garmtdevries~at~gmail.com> wrote:

From: Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd <garmtdevries~at~gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Chapters in Mistress Branican
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 7:40 PM

Thanks, Volker, that's exactly what I needed to know.
Garmt.

2009/2/24 Volker Dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>:
> Hi Garmt,
>
> I read your question a little late, but the following version:
>
> "In some editions of the novel, chapter III includes the entire
> explanation of Jos Meritt's hatmania, and chapter IV begins with
> Mistress Branican leaving Adelaide (see e.g. the version at
> http://jv.gilead.org.il/zydorczak/bran00.html)"
>
> is the text of the Magasin and in-8°.
>
> I don't have Mistress Branican in-18 but in fact, the Recontre Edition
(and livre de poche/Hachette) gives the in-18-version of this novel, and there
indeed occurs the second version you mentioned. For being sure, we must verify
on a Hetzel original, gallica, a few weeks ago, had only the first vol.
>
> I don't know if this difference must be interpreted as a misprint or
as a intended correction.
>
> Best,
> Volker
>
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As I may have told you, the Dutch JV Society is working on a Dutch
>> translation of Mistress Branican, one of the few novels that have
>> remained untranslated so far.
>>
>> We have reached the beginning of volume 2, and ran into something odd.
>> In some editions of the novel, chapter III includes the entire
>> explanation of Jos Meritt's hatmania, and chapter IV begins with
>> Mistress Branican leaving Adelaide (see e.g. the version at
>> http://jv.gilead.org.il/zydorczak/bran00.html). In several other
>> editions, chapter III ends in the middle of Jos Meritt's story,
and
>> describes the goal of his present journey at the beginning of chapter
>> IV (see the Gutenberg text at http://jv.gilead.org.il/pg/17914-8.txt).
>>
>> This discrepancy occurs in French books and online texts, as well as
>> in translations in several languages. I get the feeling that there
>> have been two different versions in the original Hetzel series. For
>> example, the Magasin version may have been different from the books,
>> or the in-18 may have been different from the in-8. Subsequent
>> editions, whether in French or translated to other languages, would
>> then differ according to which version they are based on.
>>
>> I would like to ask those of you who have access to the original
>> Hetzel editions to check where one chapter ends and where the other
>> begins. In my opinion, it makes more sens to have the entire Jos
>> Meritt section in chapter III, but for the Dutch translation we would
>> like to stick to the original French as much as possible.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Garmt.
>>
>
> --
>
Volker Dehs, Eisenbahnstr. 9, D-37073 Göttingen. Tel.: 0551 / 370 80 41
>
>
Received on Thu 26 Feb 2009 - 03:54:19 IST

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