Jules Verne
A visionary
(Jules Verne, Nantes, 1828 - Amiens, 1905) French writer, considered the founder of modern science fiction literature. Predicted with great accuracy in his fantastic tales the appearance of some of the products generated by the technological advances of the twentieth century, such as television, helicopters, submarines and spacecraft.
In 1836 he joined with his brother Paul in Saint-Donatien seminar. He later studied philosophy and rhetoric at the Nantes lycée and went to Paris, by the wishes of his father to pursue a career in law. In 1848 he began to write sonnets and texts of the theater, and two years later passed his doctoral thesis in law and chose the career of letters.
His literary beginnings were difficult, his plays were not a major release, and turned to teaching to survive. From 1852 to 1854 he worked as secretary to E. Seveste at the Théâtre Lyrique, and published some stories in Le Musée des familles, as Martin Paz (1852). In 1857 he became a stockbroker and began to travel, he visited England, Scotland, Norway and Scandinavia, and continued his writing.
Later he met the publisher Hetzel, who was interested in his writings and he published Five Weeks in a Balloon (1862), play that made him the success and encouraged him to continue with the theme of the novel of adventure and fantasy. The same publisher commissioned a regular collaboration for the magazine Magazine déducation et de Recreation, and soon achieved great fame.
Leveraging its geographical knowledge acquired through extensive travel throughout Europe, Africa and North America, and his enthusiasm for technological and industrial revolution, became a specialist in adventure stories scientific court. Your domain dramatic tension allowed to combine outrageous situations and moments of poetry in prose light and entertaining.
immediately became involved in the drafting of Journey to the Center of the Earth, for which it was applied to geology, mineralogy and paleontology. The detailed descriptions of antediluvian animals amazed the experts, demonstrating their remarkable scientific intuition. His third major book was From the Earth to the Moon, whose publication aroused such enthusiasm for space travel that his office was flooded with letters requesting reservations for the next lunar voyage.
with the same interest was received Around the world Eighty Days, published in installments, which was so successful that it even crossed Phileas Fogg bets on whether "the world rushed the man down, make it to the finish line in such a short time.
