Such novels as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the
World in Eighty Days have made Jules Verne the most widely
translated of all French authors. But he has typically been
categorized as the father of science fiction or a writer of
harmless fantasies for children. Now, in this brilliantly original
new book, Andrew Martin relocates Verne squarely at the centre of
the literary map. Dr Martin shows that a recurrent narrative
(exemplified in short stories by Napoleon Bonaparte and Jorge Luis
Borges), relating the strange destiny of a masked prophet who
revolts against an empire, runs through Verne's Voyages
Extraordinaires. This approach illuminates the paradoxical
coalition in Verne of realism and invention, repression and
transgression, imperialism and anarchy. In this book Verne emerges
not just as a key to the political and literary imagination of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries but as a model for reading
fiction in general.
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