Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 22:24:43 +0000
From: Alastair Dickson <adickson-AT-post.almac.co.uk>
Subject: Verne (was: enclosed space in literature)


In article <199612052310.SAA90312-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>, Heiko
Recktenwald <UZS106-AT-IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> wrote
>Jules Verne??:))
Verne's an interesting case, quite apart from the enclosure question.
He has a rather gadget-ist reputation (submarines, airships, etc),
although works such as "20000 Leagues Under The Sea" seem to critique
power, including power exercised for utopian ends.  

I believe one of his lesser known (and I think un-Englished) novels is
based on the Paris Commune, from a pro-Communard perspective.  Perhaps
someone has more info. about this (e.g. if that novel is in print in
French or even German)?

-- Alastair Dickson, Stirling, Scotland
-- <adickson-AT-post.almac.co.uk>


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