JULIO VERNE
Julio Verne was born
in Nantes (France) in 1828 and died in Amiens in 1905. He has been considered
the founder of the science fiction modern literature. He predicted with a great
accuracy in his stories some of the products that we use nowadays: TV, Helicopters and Spacecrafts.
In 1836, he was in the
Saint-Donatien seminary with his brother Paul. Later he studied Philosophy and
Rhetoric in Nantes and traveled to Paris to continue studying law.
His literary
beginnings were very difficult his writings weren´t important by that time and
he decided to start as a teacher to survive. In 1857 he became a stockbroker,
so he had to travel to England, Scotland, Norwegian and Scandinavia, while he
continued writing.
In one of his trips,
he met Hetzel who was an editor interested in his texts. Hetzel published “Five
Weeks On Hot Air Balloon”. This fact motivated Julio Verne to continue writing
about adventure and fantasy. Hetzel asked Verne for participating in the Déducation Et De Recreation magazine, and
he got a great reception.
Using his geographic
knowledge and his motivation about the industrial and technological revolution
by that time, Verne became a specialist for writing adventure with a bit of
science and immediately he started to write “Journey To The Center Of The Earth”. For this story, Verne had applied his
knowledge about geology, mineralogy and paleontology. After that, Verne fixed
on his next story From “The Earth To The
Moon”. This story caused a lot of people to be interested in the space
trips which caused controversy in the modern world. He continued writing “Around the World in 80 Days” and later
he wrote “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
The Sea”, one of his greatest books because it kept his charm.
Verne had been sick of
Diabetes, and on March 24th 1905 he died at his home. By that day, he had
written more than 500 works. He was buried in La Madeleine cemetery in the
north-east of Amiens. His latest novels were published by his son Michel Verne:
“The Invasion Of The Sea” and “The Lighthouse At The End Of The World”.
By: Andres Felipe Arroyo Lujan
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