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>Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism.
>His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed.
>Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.
Why didn't Anglos just translate the damn books?

>> No.22446749

>>22446747
They are very clearly children's books. He's a good writer, he pretty much created hard sci-fi. But what avant-garde? What surrealism?

>> No.22446750

>>22446747
anglos always had an inferiority complex towards the French bulls and need to make up lies to compensate it

>> No.22446752

>>22446749
> t.Anglosphere-born reader

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>>22446747
I read 20,000 leagues.

I loved that bitch. Loved every page, every single word, I furiously ate that book, every last drop of ink on the pages.

His audience was a Romanticism type audience, amazed at the beauty of the natural world. I loved reading about the different natural features, such as the rocks when they were walking to Atlantis.

When he describes the vast array of fish and marine fauna, and then tells the reader "they tasted delicious! Yumsies!"

I will purchase journey to the center of the earth sometime soon. Jules Verne's writing is a very recently developed love of mine. I'm very thankful for him.

>> No.22447143

simple minded americans prefered Wells over him

>> No.22447165

>>22446747
Anyone interested in "the literary avant-garde" could read/speak French.

>> No.22448499

>>22446747
Jules Verne isn't considered an important author in France, i mean, he's pretty famous, but for genre fiction.
My experience as a french person going on the english speaking part of the internet made me come to the exact opposite conclusion.
Jules Verne is worshipped whereas in France it's just neat science fiction

>> No.22448540

>>22447131
Yumsies!