When he was 18, he followed his father's advice and went to Paris to study law, but he had no interest in law, but fell in love with literature and theater. Once, Verne retired early from a party, and when he came downstairs, he was suddenly in a childish mood, and slid down the staircase handrail leisurely, not wanting to bump into a fat gentleman. Verne was very embarrassed, apologized and then casually asked the other party to eat, the other party replied that he had just eaten Nantes scrambled eggs. Verne shook his head and claimed that there was no authentic Nantes scrambled eggs in Paris, because he was a Nantes man and specialized in this dish. The fat gentleman was delighted and invited Verne to his door. The friendship between the two began, and once co-wrote a play, creating favorable conditions for Verne to embark on the road of creativity. The fat gentleman's name was Alexandre Dumas. After graduation, he devoted himself to the creation of poetry and theater, for which he was not only severely reprimanded by his father, but also lost his father's financial support. He had to struggle in poverty and read for pleasure. He admired Hugo, Balzac, Dumas and Shakespeare in England. In Paris, he wrote 20 plays (unpublished) and some poems full of romantic passion.
Later, Verne collaborated with Alexandre Dumas on the play The Broken Straw, which was staged, marking Verne's initial success in the literary world. As he continued to write, Verne felt that there seemed to be a lack of outlets for literary creativity, and he found that people in the literary world at the time were finding ways to try to incorporate other fields of knowledge into the theater. Dumas, for example, was melting history into literature, while Balzac was melting social ethics into literature ...... At this point Verne realized that only geography remained unexplored.
So Verne used a year of experimentation to produce works such as Wintering Above the Glacier, which was unpublished.
In 1856 Verne traveled by train to the northern city of Amiens, where he met a beautiful widow with two children, fell in love at first sight, proposed, and married. Verne then moved there and began to write seriously. He was 29 years old.
Verne created "Five Weeks in a Balloon", 16 publishers did not care about it, and angrily threw it into the fire, was rescued by his wife, and sent to the 17th publisher after being published. The editor who appreciated the book was called Herzl, and from then on Verne met his soulmate, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. Herzl contracted with Verne to publish two science fiction books a year for him.
After the publication of Five Weeks in a Balloon, Verne's creative work entered a period of multifaceted exploration, experimenting with a variety of writing styles and exploring in many directions, all at once. Two books were published each year under the general title Strange Journeys, including Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Around the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Mysterious Island, and so on, encompassing the land, the sea, and the sky....... Thereafter, the exploration ceased, and he began to mature into a period of steady development, creating Around the Earth in 80 Days, The Adventures in the Solar System," "Two Years' Vacation," and other great works. As his reputation grew, so did Verne's wealth.
Verne's later years were not very happy, and his creations decreased and entered a period of decline. His "The Old Castle of Carpathia" is somewhat autobiographical, showing the hidden side of life.
On March 17, 1905 Verne suffered hemiplegia, lost consciousness on the 24th, and died at 8:00 a.m. on the 25th.
The great funeral was held on March 28, 1905, and the world telegraphed its condolences in memory of the great science fiction writer.
Verne's stories are vivid and humorous, and can inspire people, especially young people, love science, yearning for adventure, so for more than a hundred years, has been welcomed by readers around the world. According to UNESCO, Verne is one of the top ten most translated authors in the world.
Verne was a very good writer of popular fiction, with a knack for making his visions palpable, with an all-encompassing sensibility that conveyed a certain human passion from prosaic literature. However, the characters in Verne's novels are exactly the same except for a few, and he can't seem to shape more important characters, the characters are all facetious and simple good guys and bad guys, with little psychological activity; his prejudice against women can also be seen from the homogenization of the gender of the characters in his works, which vaguely reveals the mentality of being y afflicted by them. In addition, Verne's works are full of obvious social tendencies, is a patriot (the French are the best), national liberationist (support the struggle of the oppressed peoples), to some extent is an anarchist (from some works of disorder), and finally a galactic imperialist (have the desire to create a cosmic empire).
Verne's works are full of knowledge, but he himself was a cosmic mystic with a mysterious admiration for the world. In his novels, the issues are sometimes not thought through y enough, and the themes are often repeated.
But overall, Verne's attempts remain great. He writes about small, ordinary things, but they still thrill us when we read them. As the Pope once said when he received Verne in 1884, "I am not unaware of the scientific value of your works, but it is their purity, their moral value, and their spiritual power that I cherish most."
Collected Works of Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The Sons and Daughters of Captain Grant
Oround the Moon The Mysterious Island The Master of the World
Michel Strogoff Five Weeks in a Balloon Adventures in the Air
Mexico's "The Ghost" The Master of Zochary Dr. Bull
A Winter Spent in the Ice and Snow Robil the Conqueror Two Years' Vacation
From the Earth to the Moon Around the World in Eighty Days A Love Tour of Oran
Mr. D. Ascending and Ms. E. Descending The Invisible Bride
The Traveling Fund, The Peninsula That Drifted Away, Count Sandoval
Black India, Adventures in South Africa, Breaking the Blockade
The Czar's Mail, The Indian Noblewoman's Five Hundred Million Francs, The Trickster
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He was a seer, and the fact that so much of his sci-fi conjecture ended up becoming reality is a fact that later sci-fi writers could not match. For example, not only did he use cannons to send a lunar probe into space in his novel, but he also arranged the launch site in Florida, which was the launch site for the Apollo Moon Landing Program, and the Apollo landing site was only a few kilometers away from where Verne's spacecraft landed.
The list is endless. For example, the 1828-born author fictionalized the Nautilus submarine in his novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea before launching the first real submarine 10 years later, and his Robiel the Conqueror featured a helicopter-like craft that was to become a reality for mankind decades later. ...... In addition, his novels featured machine concepts such as television, neon lights, missiles, tanks, and space shuttles, all of which later became reality. Verne has been called "the dreamer of the machine age" and "the father of science fiction".