On world literature’s frontier : Jules Verne and the portable printing press
Jules Verne read a lot of newspapers. In an 1895 interview he claimed to subscribe to twenty different periodicals (Belloc 1985). In another interview, he detailed his daily routine in his study: "I come here every day after lunch and immediately set to work to read through fifteen different...
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2022
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| Summary: | Jules Verne read a lot of newspapers. In an 1895 interview he claimed to subscribe to twenty different periodicals (Belloc 1985). In another interview, he detailed his daily routine in his study:
"I come here every day after lunch and immediately set to work to read through fifteen different papers, always the same fifteen … I also read and re-read, for I am a most careful reader, the collection known as ‘Le Tour du Monde,’ which is a series of stories of travel." (Sherard 1894)
In describing his writing, Verne insists on the central role of reading; the author of Le Tour du monde reads “Le Tour du Monde” every day. As Timothy Unwin suggests, Verne’s reading-and-writing process had a distinctive circularity: ideas, characters, and stories came into his library from the world and then headed out, transformed (2005, 67). |
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