childhood favourites: verne (was: Harry Potter)

[Dave Monroe]

Am trying to catch up on Jules Verne.  His The Carpathian Castle (which I'm
searching for a copy of) comes up to no end in all the discussions of the voice and
recording technology I'm so fond of (my favorite of which is Felicia Miller Frank's
excellent The Mechanical Song: Women, Voice and the Artifical in Nineteenth-Century
French Narrative), but what spurred me on this time around was the excellent League
of Distinguished Gentlemen comic book series, by Alan "The Watchmen" Moore.  Highly
recommended for trainspotting fans of nineteenth century adventure literature (hey,
are you familiar with one Captain Mors?  came up therein ...), of nineteenth-century
lit in general (was particularly surprised to see James and Trollope references).
But there's a whole bunch of new translations coming out here (and the translator,
William Butcher, is quite happy to point out how inadequate he feels all the other
translations are ...), and I'm always interested in how seriously the French take
him (the surrealists, as I recall, and I have someting on JV by nouveau romancier
Michel Butor).  But Captain Nemo sure ain't James Mason, that's for sure--surprised
the colonial lit types haven't picked up on 20,000 Leagues yet ...

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:

> Dave Monroe:
>
> > Verne
>
>  he's great. as a child i read of him all i could get. very "pynchonesque", too.
>
> kfl (- 20 000 miles under the sea)