Jules
Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist,
poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules
Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires,a series of
bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the
Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around
the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are
generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into
account the technological advances of the time.
In addition to
his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical
accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic, and literary studies.
His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning
of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video
games.
Verne is considered to be an important author in France
and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary
avant-garde and on surrealism.His reputation was markedly different in
the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre
fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and
altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since
the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.
Jules Verne has
been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking
between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare.He has sometimes been
called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given
to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.In the 2010s, he was the most
translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared
"Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's
death.
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