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Jules Verne 8: humour, ironie, fantaisie.(Book Review)
From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20040701
Author:Unwin, Timothy
Jules Verne 8: humour, ironie, fantaisie. Ed. by CHRISTIAN CHELEBOURG. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2003. 236 pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91054-7.
The first seven of the valued Minard Jules Verne series appeared between 1978 and 1994, so it was high time that the eighth volume saw the light of day. The ten essays here offer a brisk and lively account of Jules Verne's humour (only one essay, an analysis of Le Chateau des Carpathes by Noel Mauberret, deals explicitly with the topic of fantasy promised in the volume title; one other, Volker Dehs's discussion of ...
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