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Re: Journey 2 - Vernian reality checks

From: Jan Rychlík <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:58:36 +0100 (CET)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

In Robur (hope I remember well) Verne mentions Bégum as real story, while in La Chasse au météore V.O. he mentions Servadac as fiction.

> ------------ Původní zpráva------------
> Od: Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd <garmtdevries~at~gmail.com>
> Předmět: Re: Journey 2 - Vernian reality checks
> Datum: 21.2.2012 15:39:25
> ----------------------------------------
> On 21 February 2012 15:13, Rick Walter <rick1walter~at~comcast.net> wrote:
> >> in _Le Sphinx des glaces_ (The Ice Sphinx) … Edgar Allan Poe's Arthur
> >>Gordon Pym is treated as a *real* person whose adventures at the South Pole
> >>*really happened* according to Captain Len Guy.
> >
> > Art started off this whole thread with a posting that ended on the above
> > comment. Back then I should have commented that, in the same novel, Verne
> > packaged one of his OWN characters as a “real person” who participated in
> > “real happenings.”
>
> Another interesting touch is the use of Corporal Glass, a real person
> who had already appeared in Poe's novel, and who discusses Poe's
> character Pym with Verne's character Guy.
>
> Verne cleverly (and hardly noticeably) entangles various levels of
> reality. This even includes the meta-level, with the dedication "to
> the memory of Edgar Allan Poe".
>
> I'm trying to think of earlier examples in literature where fictional
> stories are presented as reality, but their former status as a work of
> fiction is acknowledged and their author is mentioned by name. Of
> course, Verne cites his own "20.000 lieues" within the fictional
> context of "île mystérieuse", title and all, but it is described as a
> true account of true happenings. Smith and his friends aren't
> surprised by the fact that Nemo turns out to be a real person instead
> of a character in a novel.
>
> What would be the first example of fiction/reality mixing, as is done
> in the Journey films, in "Sphinx", and in Craig's "Nautilus", to name
> but a few examples?
>
> Cheers,
> Garmt.
>
>
>
>
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