When it comes to French literature, everyone may be relatively unfamiliar and think that this will be very far away from us, but in fact, the works of French literature are also well known to us, but at that time, we may not have paid attention to which country they were. Among them, Jules Verne's works are the most famous, such as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Terrain Adventure", "Around the World in Eighty Days", etc., it is estimated that people who have not seen it can also know these names. I remember when I was in elementary school, there was a clear stipulation to read "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea".
Jules Verne looked like an obscure writer, but in fact he enjoyed a certain reputation not only in literature, but also in the scientific community. Many well-known scientists have idolized Verne, not because Verne invented anything, he wrote novels all his life. The reason for this phenomenon is because of his super imagination, although it appears in the form of a small rope, but the scientific principles contained in it have been proved feasible by later generations. Today, I will tell the story of Verne and see if he is a writer or a scientist.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > young Jules Verne</h1>
Born in the 19th century in the western part of France, his father was a lawyer and his mother came from a Scottish seafaring family, Verne did not really travel the world, and his mother's family background obviously gave him too much help and inspiration in his creative career. At school, Verne's teacher was a widow named Sanban, whose husband was still missing due to shipwrecks, but this optimistic person often told her students that her husband would drift to a desert island like Robinson crusoe and then return to the civilized world after experiencing all kinds of difficulties. This also allowed Robinson's story to penetrate farner's heart and became the driving force behind his writing.
Later, Verne took a vacation at his uncle's house, and coincidentally, his uncle was also a retired merchant ship captain who had traveled the world. This undoubtedly added to Verne's yearning for the sea and long-distance ships. It is said that by the time he was 11 years old, he could no longer contain his desire to go to sea, so he secretly took a job on a three-masted sailing ship called the Coralie and prepared to travel alone to India and ask his cousin to bring back a coral necklace. However, the lesson was unfavorable, and when the Coralie stopped at Pampore, Farna was captured by her own father, and was also taught a harsh lesson.
Verne continued his studies, and while attending a church school, he began to create his first novel, called A Priest in 1835. Later, under the influence of Hugo, he created two more tragic short films, but then the elder Farner came back up and told him that he should pursue a legal career like himself. Verne later went to Paris to study, where he continued to study law, but his pursuit of literature never waned. Later, through the introduction of friends, Verne became acquainted with Dumas and became friends with his son Dumas the Younger, after which he officially began the road of literature.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > from playwright to science fiction writer</h1>
With dumas's help, Verne wrote plays for the theater several times in a row, and received a lot of response. In 1851, the editor-in-chief of a magazine went to Farner in the morning and hoped that he would write short stories about history and geography. This could not have been more appropriate for Verne, who had not yet been out of France at the time, but with his previous experience and interest, Farner happily took over the job. In 1851, he wrote "The First Fleet of the Mexican Navy" and "A Trip in a Balloon". During this time, verne also met an explorer named Jacques Aragon, so Farne learned a little more about the world outside Of France.
The "science fiction" model was inadvertently conceived by Verne, who believed that someone had to try something new. Therefore, in addition to writing a script for the theater, he began to write his first novel. In 1862, Air Travel was completed, and its name was changed to Five Weeks on a Balloon. The publisher was a man named Hetzel, who was also Verne's idol Victor. Publisher of Hugo. This move not only created a boom in science fiction, but also led to the theme of "ultra-long voyage". The collaboration with Hetzel eventually cracked because of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", which was originally a Polish scientist and rebelled against Tsarist Russia, but it was clear that Hetzel, a businessman, did not want to lose the Russian market, which led to today's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea".
Before that, Verne used the money he earned to buy a small sailing ship called "St. Michel" and traveled around Europe on it, which was also a regret for Verne's childhood. Although he wrote a large number of excellent science fiction novels in his lifetime, in his later years he became a deist and even indirectly influenced later works. In 1886, because Verne's nephew was suffering from a serious mental illness, All unconsciously fired two shots at Farne and left one leg permanently disabled. In 1905, Verne died of illness, and two unfinished novels, Invasion of the Sea and Lighthouse of the Sky, were written by his son.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > fiction writer who is regarded as a "prophet" by scientists</h1>
Verne must have been a rigorous man, as can be seen in his novels, and Around the World in Eighty Days seemed like an impossible task, but in fact Verne made precise calculations when he wrote the novel. In 1889, an American journalist named "Nellie Bligh" tried the method in the book, and it took only 72 days to complete a lap. This directly proves that "Around the World in Eighty Days" is not simply a science fiction novel.
There are many more examples like this, although submarines existed before the nautilus appeared, but the design concept of the Nautilus has become a reference for modern submarines. In addition, in the book "From the Earth to the Moon", Verne even predicted the existence of Pluto, but there should be no scientific basis for this. Verne's novels have spread all over the world, and in terms of translations, Verne even surpassed Shakespeare, second only to the number one Agatha (the creator of Detective Poirot).
References for Centre International Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days, Le Verne. The Great Traveler of the 19th Century