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Carregando... Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biographyde Herbert R. Lottman
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Letto nel 2023 - Una biografia di Jules Verne molto rigorosa e approfondita sulla vita dello scrittore, citate numerose fonti e i fondi dove l'autore ha attinto le informazioni, Crea una lettura scorrevole ma anche impegnativa. E' anche uno spaccato della società francese ed europea nel mezzo del 1800. Interessante ( ) Easy, if overall slow read. I kept putting it aside for failing to retain my attention. Still, it was interesting, if academic, and a fan of Verne may unfairly come away with the image tarnished. Tarnished not because of Verne, but because of Lottman's treatment...slow, and an odd mix of broad-based critique with excruciating attention to irrelevant minutia of details of Verne's life. In this case, shoot the messenger. I loved Verne from childhood and knowing the man, as an adult, fortunately doesn't impact the memory of the love, but that's because I was able to overcome a plodding narrative. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Drawing on previously unpublished letters and papers, Herbert R. Lottman reveals Jules Verne, the pioneer of the science fiction genre and the uncannily accurate forecaster of twentieth-century invention, in an entirely new light. In this groundbreaking biography, Lottman explores the dark, private side of the visionary writer. In his long-lost novel, Paris in the Twentieth Century (published in France in 1994, and in the United States in early 1997), Verne predicted a world filled with both technological achievements and monstrosities: cars, fax machines, synthesizers, computers, mass transit, and the electric chair. With uncharacteristic mistrust, Verne simultaneously marveled at the inventions and despaired at what drove people to create them. It is this elusive, disillusioned aspect of Verne that Herbert Lottman captures here. Tracing Verne's life from his childhood in Nantes to his self-imposed exile outside of Paris as an adult. Lottman sketches a vivid portrait of the man. Lottman brings to light for the first time Verne's secret struggles with his constant wanderlust, his unhappy marriage, his rebellious son, and his overbearing editor-publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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