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Re: Les enfants du Capitaine Grant - source

From: Alex Kirstukas <infernalnonsense~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:16:06 -0600
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Point well made, and well taken! All I meant was that you (Christian) and I were writing our Grant-related messages almost simultaneously - a coincidence worthy of Paganel himself. (EG is easily one of the most lucky-happenstance-heavy Voyages in the canon; that's one of the reasons I like it so much.)

I've just begun my comparison of the Gutenberg and Archive editions; so far, most of the differences have to do with paragraph divisions and punctuation. (For example, Archive's Chapter III begins with one extremely long paragraph, which Gutenberg breaks up into several smaller ones.) It seems possible that the Gutenberg text comes from a slightly different source (a Hachette reprint? the Magasin serialization? an in-18?) - hence my question as to how many variations there actually are, and which one may be considered definitive.

Has anybody studied this issue? Are there several different versions of the text, as there are for JCE, ATW, and 20,000L? Or is the Gutenberg version just wrong?

Alex


On Feb 28, 2011, at 10:37 PM, Christian Sánchez <chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar> wrote:

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> <Excellent find, Christian! Oddly, just as that message was being sent, I too was about to ask a question related to Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant. Clearly, <the Voyages Extraordinaires aren't the only place where unexpected coincidences occur.
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> Sure, my point is that Verne didn't make up/imagine that kind of incredible things, but he got them from contemporary books and periodicals.
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> <Here's my question: I've been doing some research into Les Enfants, and have found that the Project Gutenberg etext differs noticeably from the Hetzel <grand-in-8s and in-18s available on the Internet Archive and Gallia. How many versions of the French text are there, and which one (if any) is viewed as the <"standard" or "definitive" text?
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> Could you present an example of the differences you found (first paragraphs...)?
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>
> Best regards,
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> Christian Sánchez
> chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar
> Rosario, Argentina
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> <Thanks,
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> <Alex
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>
> --- On Mon, 2/28/11, Valeria Smolianinova <valerysmol~at~mail.ru> wrote:
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> From: Valeria Smolianinova <valerysmol~at~mail.ru>
> Subject: Re: Les enfants du Capitaine Grant - source
> To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> Date: Monday, February 28, 2011, 11:59 AM
>
> Yes, a picture is as with Robert...
>
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