Literature
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Project to publish a book on science fiction and anticipation literature (notably utopias, dystopias, and time travel). Objective: around ten chapters.
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Dr. Bernard Montoneri and Dr. Murielle El Hajj Nahas
Chapter 1: Discussion on three novels and their vision of Paris and France in the future; Jules Verne, Louis-Sébastien Mercier and René Barjavel.
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Sources and references:
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Definitions
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Utopia on TV Tropes
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Dystopia on TV Tropes
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Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
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Jules Verne
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1. Biography
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Jules Verne on TV Tropes
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Jules Verne was a French novelist whose many popular novels include the classics Voyage au centre de la Terre (1864), De la Terre à la Lune (1965) and Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873). While studying law, Verne wrote plays and librettos, but soon turned to writing novels full-time. He wrote dozens of books in his career and became the world-famous and wealthy author of adventures that are still in print today, including In Search of the Castaways (1868), L'Île mystérieuse (1874) and Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (1870).
Many of Verne's works became familiar to movie audiences, thanks to movie versions produced by Walt Disney's studios. French novelist, originator of modern science fiction. After completing his studies at the Nantes lycée, he went to Paris to study law. He early became interested in the theater and wrote (1848–50) librettos for operettas. For some years his concerns alternated between business and the theater, but after 1863 he drew upon his interest in science and geography to write a series of romances of extraordinary journeys, in which he anticipated, with remarkable foresight, many scientific and technological achievements of the 20th Century.
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Verne is especially known to English readers in translations of his Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), The Mysterious Island (1875), and Michael Strogoff (1876).
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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, Mary Shelley, and Hugo Gernsback.
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The Index Translationum is UNESCO's database of book translations. Books have been translated for thousands of years, with no central record of the fact. The League of Nations established a record of translations in 1932. In 1946, the United Nations superseded the League and UNESCO was assigned the Index. In 1979, the records were computerized.
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Librivox MP3s of Jules Verne
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Annotated bibliography with summaries of Verne's works
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Wiki Source Jules Verne's books in French, English, Chinese...
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2. Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863)
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Bernstein, R. (December 27, 1996). The New Jules Verne, Like '1984' but Older. The New York Times. Retrieved April 22, 2020 from https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/27/books/the-new-jules-verne-like-1984-but-older.html
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Louis-Sébastien Mercier
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1. Biography
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Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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Cloutier, A. (2009). Entre préjugé et pratique : Louis Sébastien Mercier, homme de lettres et journaliste. Études littéraires, 40(3), 15–28. https://doi.org/10.7202/039241ar
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2. L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais
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Book PDF French
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René Barjavel
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1. Biography
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Franceinfo INA (1971). René Barjavel « Dans 25 ans, nous risquons de voir les hommes crever ». Retrieved April 22, 2020 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g92DNq0WgDU
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Laroche-Signorile, V. (November 24, 2015). Barjavel : mort du très énigmatique maître de la science-fiction française. Le Figaro. Retrieved April 22, 2020 from https://www.lefigaro.fr/histoire/archives/2015/11/23/26010-20151123ARTFIG00259-barjavel-mort-du-tres-enigmatique-maitre-de-la-science-fiction-francaise.php
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René Barjavel on TV Tropes
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Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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2. Ravage
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Ligne Claire (September 30, 2016). Ravage, le roman de Barjavel adapté. Retrieved April 22, 2020 from https://www.ligneclaire.info/morvan-macutay-41210.html
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References
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Marshall, C. (January 25, 2016). Jules Verne Accurately Predicts What the 20th Century Will Look Like in His Lost Novel, Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863). Open Culture. Retrieved April 22, 2020 from http://www.openculture.com/2016/01/jules-verne-accurately-predicts-what-the-20th-century-will-look-like.html
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Noisette, T. (June 15, 2019). Comment les écrivains français ont inventé la science-fiction. Bibliobs. Retrieved April 22, 2020 from https://www.nouvelobs.com/bibliobs/20190615.OBS14440/comment-les-ecrivains-francais-ont-invente-la-science-fiction.html
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Wolfe, G. K. (March 02, 2017). Mary Shelley and the Birth of Science Fiction. The Great Courses Daily. Retrieved April 22, 2020 from https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/mary-shelley-science-fiction
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