Famille-sans-nom
On en sait peu sur Jean-sans-nom. Pourtant durant la rébellion des patriotes de 1837 au Canada, son pseudonyme est sur les lèvres de tous les hommes. D'un côté les Britanniques le savent être un rebelle, un traitre qui ne mérite que d'être puni. De l'autre, les patriotes Franco-Canadiens parlent de lui avec enthousiasme et rêvent de le voir agiter le drapeau de l'indépendance - pour une communauté franco-canadienne libre.À travers l'histoire d'un homme sans nom et de sa famille au secret bien caché, Jules Verne se montre comme le partisan d'un « Québec » libre, et fait le récit d'une lutte historique.Jules Verne (1828-1905) est l'auteur de près de quatre-vingts romans, et un incroyable précurseur de la science-fiction. Dès son plus jeune âge, il rêve d'aventures, et tente de partir en bateau pour les Indes. Son père l'ayant retenu, il se rend à Paris et fait des études de droit. Là bas, il fréquente à la fois les milieux littéraires (il rencontre Dumas) et scientifiques (il rencontre les trois frères Aragos). Sa première pièce «Les Pailles Rompues», en 1850, le pousse à se consacrer à la littérature. Il voyage en Ecosse puis en Scandinavie, et il publie «Cinq Semaines en Ballon», en 1863, chez son ami éditeur Hetzel. C'est un succès considérable qu'il cristallise avec «Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours», et des romans oscillant entre aventure et anticipation: «Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers», 1869, «De la Terre à la Lune», 1865.
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne ( VURN; French: ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account contemporary scientific knowledge and the technological advances of the time.
In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games.
Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.
Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking below Agatha Christie and above William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.
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