Banca de DEFESA: Pedro Henrique Oliveira de Alcantara

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STUDENT : Pedro Henrique Oliveira de Alcantara
DATE: 13/09/2022
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Plataforma Teams
TITLE:

JOURNEY AND TECHNOLOGY: THE MACHINERY OF THE DOCUMENTALIST JULES VERNE

KEY WORDS:

Jules Verne; documentation; machines; journeys; Extraordinary Voyages.

PAGES: 149
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

Jules Verne's work is a body of knowledge and information. Over time, his work was considered science fiction and even futuristic accounts. However, when we look at the novelist's writing process, new perspectives open up about the author's literary project. Thanks to his painstaking documentary work, Verne was able to gather various kinds of knowledge and information to develop his plots. His interest in documentation accompanied him throughout his life, providing him with encyclopedic material to develop his novels, characters, and other nonfiction productions. In addition to travels in the world of fiction, Verne traveled and sailed widely alongside his professional career, which gave him perspectives for the creation of a multiple, borderless work. Despite being influenced by great names in literature, such as Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas and Edgar Poe, Verne developed an original working method that led to worldwide recognition and success. Having initially written for the theater, the detail, technical precision, calculations, machines, and extraordinary journeys in his novels transport the reader and those who see him as a prophet of the future and his work as futuristic science fiction. The fact that some of Verne´s journeys and inventions became reality some time after the publication of his novels, such as the electric submarine, which appeared fifteen years after the publication of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, reinforces this idea; it is the same with the rudiments of videoconferencing, which appeared sixty-nine years after In the Year 2889, with the arrival of man on the moon, a hundred years after From the Earth to the Moon, among other examples. Are these examples sufficient to classify Jules Verne as an author who wanted to produce science fiction? We raise the hypothesis that the writer´s scientific imagination – a man of theater and a traveler, passionate about geography and documentation – is above all part of his own machinery and the game he encourages his reader to play

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