Jules Vernes
French novelist, poet, and playwright.
• sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.
• A primary issue at the heart of the dispute is the question of whether Verne's works count as science fiction to begin with. Maurice Renard claimed that Verne "never wrote a single sentence of scientific-marvelous".[106] Verne himself argued repeatedly in interviews that his novels were not meant to be read as scientific, saying "I have invented nothing." His own goal was rather to "depict the earth [and] at the same time to realize a very high ideal of beauty of style"
• Most of the novels in the Voyages series (except for Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Purchase of the North Pole) were first serialized in periodicals, usually in Hetzel’s Magasin d'Éducation et de récréation ("Magazine of Education and Recreation").
Works:
1.Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863
2. Journey to the Center of the Earth 1866
3. From the Earth to the Moon 1865
4. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 1869
5. Around the Moon 1870
6. Discovery of the Earth
7. Around the World in Eighty Days 1873
8. The Mysterious Island 1874
Extraordinary Voyages is a sequence of fifty-four novels by the French writer Jules Verne, originally published between 1863 and 1905.
First Novel -
Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863
Last Novel -
Invasion of the Sea 1905
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French novelist, poet, and playwright.
• sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.
• A primary issue at the heart of the dispute is the question of whether Verne's works count as science fiction to begin with. Maurice Renard claimed that Verne "never wrote a single sentence of scientific-marvelous".[106] Verne himself argued repeatedly in interviews that his novels were not meant to be read as scientific, saying "I have invented nothing." His own goal was rather to "depict the earth [and] at the same time to realize a very high ideal of beauty of style"
• Most of the novels in the Voyages series (except for Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Purchase of the North Pole) were first serialized in periodicals, usually in Hetzel’s Magasin d'Éducation et de récréation ("Magazine of Education and Recreation").
Works:
1.Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863
2. Journey to the Center of the Earth 1866
3. From the Earth to the Moon 1865
4. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 1869
5. Around the Moon 1870
6. Discovery of the Earth
7. Around the World in Eighty Days 1873
8. The Mysterious Island 1874
Extraordinary Voyages is a sequence of fifty-four novels by the French writer Jules Verne, originally published between 1863 and 1905.
First Novel -
Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863
Last Novel -
Invasion of the Sea 1905
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French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.
"J'accuse…!" ("I accuse...!") was an open letter published on 13 January 1898 in the newspaper L'Aurore by the influential writer Émile Zola.
• In the letter, Zola addressed President of France Félix Faure and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer who was sentenced to lifelong penal servitude for espionage.
• Les Rougon-Macquart,
• Thérèse Raquin,
• Germinal - 1885 - Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s
• Nana
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"J'accuse…!" ("I accuse...!") was an open letter published on 13 January 1898 in the newspaper L'Aurore by the influential writer Émile Zola.
• In the letter, Zola addressed President of France Félix Faure and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer who was sentenced to lifelong penal servitude for espionage.
• Les Rougon-Macquart,
• Thérèse Raquin,
• Germinal - 1885 - Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s
• Nana
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won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "
France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
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France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
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representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
"The Necklace" or "The Diamond Necklace" - (most famous short story)
Madame Mathilde Loisel - married a low paid clerk - wants to make her happy - begs invitation to Ministry of Education party - wife unhappy - has nothing to wear- buys dress with 400 francs - still not happy - wants jewelry - goes to borrow it as they have no money - buys Madame Jeanne Forestier's fancy necklace - loses it - finds another for 40,000 in a shop - sell everything to get it for 36,000 - lead a poor life - Mathilde meets Jeanne after years only to realise that her Jeanne's necklace was fake or 'made of paste' - worth not more than 500 francs.
"The Necklace", was imitated with a twist by both Maugham ("Mr Know-All", "A String of Beads") and Henry James ("Paste").
Works:
1. La Maison Tellier - 1881 (first volume of short stories)
2. A Woman's Life - 1883 (first novel)
3. Bel Ami - 1885 (second novel)
4. Pierre et Jean (considered his greatest novel)
Maupassant also wrote under several pseudonyms such as Joseph Prunier, Guy de Valmont, and Maufrigneus
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"The Necklace" or "The Diamond Necklace" - (most famous short story)
Madame Mathilde Loisel - married a low paid clerk - wants to make her happy - begs invitation to Ministry of Education party - wife unhappy - has nothing to wear- buys dress with 400 francs - still not happy - wants jewelry - goes to borrow it as they have no money - buys Madame Jeanne Forestier's fancy necklace - loses it - finds another for 40,000 in a shop - sell everything to get it for 36,000 - lead a poor life - Mathilde meets Jeanne after years only to realise that her Jeanne's necklace was fake or 'made of paste' - worth not more than 500 francs.
"The Necklace", was imitated with a twist by both Maugham ("Mr Know-All", "A String of Beads") and Henry James ("Paste").
Works:
1. La Maison Tellier - 1881 (first volume of short stories)
2. A Woman's Life - 1883 (first novel)
3. Bel Ami - 1885 (second novel)
4. Pierre et Jean (considered his greatest novel)
Maupassant also wrote under several pseudonyms such as Joseph Prunier, Guy de Valmont, and Maufrigneus
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French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
In Search of Lost Time
1 Volume One: Swann's Way
2 Volume Two: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
3 Volume Three: The Guermantes Way
4 Volume Four: Sodom and Gomorrah
5 Volume Five: The Prisoner
6 Volume Six: The Fugitive
7 Volume Seven: Time Regained
• It gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past
• In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, has gained usage since D. J. Enright in 1992
Themes
3.1 Memory
3.2 Separation anxiety
3.3 Nature of art
3.4 Homosexuality
Influence:
• Oh if I could write like that!" marveled Virginia Woolf in 1922
Proust's influence (in parody) is seen in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust (1934), in which Chapter 1 is entitled "Du Côté de Chez Beaver" and Chapter 6 "Du Côté de Chez Tod."
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In Search of Lost Time
1 Volume One: Swann's Way
2 Volume Two: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
3 Volume Three: The Guermantes Way
4 Volume Four: Sodom and Gomorrah
5 Volume Five: The Prisoner
6 Volume Six: The Fugitive
7 Volume Seven: Time Regained
• It gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past
• In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, has gained usage since D. J. Enright in 1992
Themes
3.1 Memory
3.2 Separation anxiety
3.3 Nature of art
3.4 Homosexuality
Influence:
• Oh if I could write like that!" marveled Virginia Woolf in 1922
Proust's influence (in parody) is seen in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust (1934), in which Chapter 1 is entitled "Du Côté de Chez Beaver" and Chapter 6 "Du Côté de Chez Tod."
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French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels
The Thief's Journal, and
Our Lady of the Flowers, and
Plays:
The Balcony,
The Maids and
The Screens.
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Roman à clef, erotic, theatre
Works:
Novels -
Our Lady of the Flowers ( 1943)
The two auto-fictional novels, The Miracle of the Rose (Miracle de la rose 1946) and The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur 1949), describe Genet's time in Mettray Penal Colony and his experiences as a vagabond and prostitute across Europe
• maids imitate one another and their mistress in The Maids (1947)
• clients of a brothel simulate roles of political power before, in a dramatic reversal, actually becoming those figures, all surrounded by mirrors that both reflect and conceal, in The Balcony (1957).
• The Blacks (1959), presenting a violent assertion of Black identity and anti-white virulence
Novels
• Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre Dame des Fleurs) 1942/1943
• The Miracle of the Rose (Miracle de la Rose) 1946/1951
• Funeral Rites (Pompes Funèbres) 1947/1953
• Querelle of Brest (Querelle de Brest) 1947/1953
• The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur) 1949/1949
• Prisoner of Love (Un Captif Amoureux) 1986/1986
Plays
• Deathwatch (Haute surveillance) 1944
• The Maids (Les Bonnes) 1946
• Splendid's 1948/1993/
• The Balcony (Le Balcon) 1955.
• The Blacks (Les Nègres) 1955
• Her (Elle) 1955/1989
The Screens (Les Paravents) 1956-61/1961/1964
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The Thief's Journal, and
Our Lady of the Flowers, and
Plays:
The Balcony,
The Maids and
The Screens.
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Roman à clef, erotic, theatre
Works:
Novels -
Our Lady of the Flowers ( 1943)
The two auto-fictional novels, The Miracle of the Rose (Miracle de la rose 1946) and The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur 1949), describe Genet's time in Mettray Penal Colony and his experiences as a vagabond and prostitute across Europe
• maids imitate one another and their mistress in The Maids (1947)
• clients of a brothel simulate roles of political power before, in a dramatic reversal, actually becoming those figures, all surrounded by mirrors that both reflect and conceal, in The Balcony (1957).
• The Blacks (1959), presenting a violent assertion of Black identity and anti-white virulence
Novels
• Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre Dame des Fleurs) 1942/1943
• The Miracle of the Rose (Miracle de la Rose) 1946/1951
• Funeral Rites (Pompes Funèbres) 1947/1953
• Querelle of Brest (Querelle de Brest) 1947/1953
• The Thief's Journal (Journal du voleur) 1949/1949
• Prisoner of Love (Un Captif Amoureux) 1986/1986
Plays
• Deathwatch (Haute surveillance) 1944
• The Maids (Les Bonnes) 1946
• Splendid's 1948/1993/
• The Balcony (Le Balcon) 1955.
• The Blacks (Les Nègres) 1955
• Her (Elle) 1955/1989
The Screens (Les Paravents) 1956-61/1961/1964
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Plays and Screenplays
• Bariona (1940)
• The Flies (1943) - It is an adaptation of the Electra myth
story of Orestes and his sister Electra in their quest to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon, king of Argos, by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her husband Aegisthus, who had deposed and killed him.
• No Exit (1944) - begins with three characters who find themselves waiting in a mysterious room. depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "Hell is other people",
• The Respectful Prostitute (1946)
• The Chips Are Down (1947)
• Dirty Hands (1948)
• The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
• Kean (1953)
• Nekrassov (1955)
• The Condemned of Altona (1959)
• The Trojan Woman (1965)
• The Freud Scenario (1984)
Philosophical Essays
• (Important )"Imagination: A Psychological Critique" (1936)
• (Imp )"The Transcendence of the Ego" (1936)
• "Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions" (1939)
• "The Imaginary" (1940)
• (Imp )Being and Nothingness (1943)
• (Imp )Existentialism and Humanism (1946)
• (Imp )What Is Literature? (1947) -influenced Barthes
• "Search for a Method" (1957)
• (Imp )"Critique of Dialectical Reason" (1960, 1985)
• "Notebooks for an Ethics" (1983)
• "Truth and Existence" (1989)
Novels and Short Stories
• Nausea (1938)
• The Wall (1939)
• The Roads to Freedom
• (Imp )The Age of Reason (1945)
• The Reprieve (1945)
• Troubled Sleep (1949)
• In the Mesh (1948)
• Intimacy (1949)
Hurricane over Cuba (1961)
• Bariona (1940)
• The Flies (1943) - It is an adaptation of the Electra myth
story of Orestes and his sister Electra in their quest to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon, king of Argos, by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her husband Aegisthus, who had deposed and killed him.
• No Exit (1944) - begins with three characters who find themselves waiting in a mysterious room. depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "Hell is other people",
• The Respectful Prostitute (1946)
• The Chips Are Down (1947)
• Dirty Hands (1948)
• The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
• Kean (1953)
• Nekrassov (1955)
• The Condemned of Altona (1959)
• The Trojan Woman (1965)
• The Freud Scenario (1984)
Philosophical Essays
• (Important )"Imagination: A Psychological Critique" (1936)
• (Imp )"The Transcendence of the Ego" (1936)
• "Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions" (1939)
• "The Imaginary" (1940)
• (Imp )Being and Nothingness (1943)
• (Imp )Existentialism and Humanism (1946)
• (Imp )What Is Literature? (1947) -influenced Barthes
• "Search for a Method" (1957)
• (Imp )"Critique of Dialectical Reason" (1960, 1985)
• "Notebooks for an Ethics" (1983)
• "Truth and Existence" (1989)
Novels and Short Stories
• Nausea (1938)
• The Wall (1939)
• The Roads to Freedom
• (Imp )The Age of Reason (1945)
• The Reprieve (1945)
• Troubled Sleep (1949)
• In the Mesh (1948)
• Intimacy (1949)
Hurricane over Cuba (1961)
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