(Jules Verne, Nantes, 1828 - Amiens, 1905) French writer considered the founder of modern science fiction literature. He predicted with great accuracy in their fantastic stories the appearance of some inventions generated by the technological advances of the twentieth century, such as television, helicopters, submarines or spacecraft.
Biography
Jules Verne's life is a succession of apparently sensible decisions: he studied law following the family tradition, married a wealthy widow, a wealthy position and achieved only when their overwhelming success allowed him devoted himself exclusively to literature. This middle class accommodation, however, was not spontaneous result of a docile nature. At eleven years old, in love with a cousin, he embarked on a ship crossing to the Indies with the romantic idea of bringing a necklace of coral. The adventure was aborted at the last second by her father, who severely beat him; This and subsequent contempt of raw misogyny apparently fed Verne and a secret rebellion, unable to manifest itself in the sanctimonious society, would find a channel of expression in the overflowing fantasy literature.
But while it may be considered to Verne a castaway in the monotony of a prevented society from the products of imagination and distrustful genius, no less certain is that, perhaps to circumvent such suspicions, their isolation and their literary dreams were always reasonable . After his first children's adventure pool and suffocated, Verne learned the lesson and did not rebel except in his books, but in a cryptic and elusive way. As if afraid to say too much and terrorize explicitly unlikely, unorthodox or provocative, the author hastened to exorcise through demonstrations to confine rarity in the limits of human reason. Thus, the visionary was cornered benefit as reasonably possible considering the pace of technical advances of the time. And faith in progress sister in their heroes with courage, intelligence and kindness, always triumph over ignorance and narrow-mindedness.
Such polarity defined the stage of his life prior to his literary consecration, which he alternated with the obligatory literature fulfillment of their duties. At eight, he joined with his brother Paul in the seminary Saint-Donatien. He later studied philosophy and rhetoric at the Lycee of Nantes and traveled to Paris to pursue a career in law, thereby fulfilling the wishes of his father, attorney Pierre Verne. In 1848 he began writing sonnets and theater texts, and two years later adopted his doctoral thesis in law and chose the career of letters.
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