When jules verne 18 years old, he went to Paris to study law according to his father's instructions, but he had no interest in law, but fell in love with literature and drama. Once, Verne left early from a party, and when he went downstairs, he was suddenly childlike and slipped down the handrail of the stairs, not wanting to bump into a fat gentleman. Verne was very embarrassed. After apologizing, he casually asked each other if they had eaten. The other party replied that they had just eaten Nantes scrambled eggs. Verne shook his head and claimed that there were no authentic Nantes scrambled eggs in Paris because he was from Nantes and did a good job. The fat gentleman was overjoyed and invited Verne to perform at his door. From then on, their friendship began. They once wrote plays together, which created favorable conditions for Verne to embark on the road of creation. The fat gentleman's name is Dumas. After graduation, he devoted himself to the creation of poetry and drama. To this end, he was not only severely reprimanded by his father, but also lost financial support. He had to struggle in poverty and enjoy reading. He worships Hugo, Balzac, Dumas and Shakespeare in England. In Paris, he wrote 20 plays (unpublished) and some romantic poems.
Later, Verne collaborated with Dumas to create the drama Broken Straw, which was put on the stage, marking Verne's initial success in the literary world. In the process of continuing his creation, Verne felt that literary creation seemed to lack a way out. He found that people in the literary world were trying to find a way out and tried to integrate knowledge from other fields into drama. For example, Dumas integrated history into literature, Balzac integrated social ethics into literature ... then Verne discovered that only geography had not developed.
So Verne spent a year experimenting and created works such as Winter on the Glacier, but none of them were published.
1856 Verne came to the northern city of Amiens by train, met a beautiful widow with two children, fell in love at first sight and proposed, and then got married. Then Verne moved in and began to write seriously. He is 29 years old.
After Verne wrote "Five Weeks in a Balloon", 16 publishing house ignored him, threw himself into the fire angrily, was rescued by his wife, and sent it to 17 publishing house for publication. The editor who appreciated this book was Heckel, and Verne met his bosom friend and made a lifelong friendship with him. Hegel signed a contract with Verne to publish two science fiction novels every year.
After the publication of Five Weeks in a Balloon, Verne's creation entered a period of exploration in many aspects. He tried all kinds of writing methods and explored in all directions, but he couldn't accept them. He also wrote a series of science fiction adventure novels, numerous and numerous, which were included in the series of Strange Travel. Two Wan Li under the Sea is the second part of Verne's famous trilogy, which is preceded by Captain Grant's Children and followed by Mysterious Island. He publishes two books every year, and all his works are included in one book. The total title is Strange Travel, including Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Around the Moon, Two Wan Li under the Sea, Mysterious Island and so on. Covering land, sea and sky ... The author has rich imagination, exquisite writing and ingenious conception, and his works are both fascinating and educational, suitable for all kinds. Moreover, Verne's fantasy is not whimsical, but has scientific basis; Many of the tools he foresaw later became real things in real life.
Verne's works are full of knowledge, but he himself is a mystic of the universe and has a mysterious worship of the world. In his novels, sometimes the thinking is not deep enough and the theme is often repeated. After that, the exploration stopped, began to mature and entered a period of steady development, and he created excellent works such as Around the Earth in Eighty Days, Adventures in the Solar System (Chinese translation of Raft) and Two-year Vacation. With the increase of popularity, Verne's wealth is also growing rapidly.
However, Verne was not very happy in his later years, and his creation decreased and he entered a period of weakness. His Carpathian Castle is autobiographical and shows the unknown side of life.
March 1905, Verne was hemiplegic, lost consciousness on 24th, and died in Amiens at 8: 00 on 25th.
1905 On March 28th, a grand funeral was held, and the whole world sent telegrams to mourn this great science fiction writer.
Verne's story is lively and humorous, full of fun, which can inspire people, especially teenagers, to love science and yearn for adventure. Verne is an important founder of modern science fiction. So it has been welcomed by readers all over the world for more than one hundred years. According to UNESCO, Verne is one of the top ten famous translators in the world.
Verne is an excellent writer of popular novels. He has the ability to make his illusion touchable, and his feelings are all-round, conveying some human enthusiasm from plain literature. However, the characters in Verne's novels are all the same except a few. It seems that he can't create more important characters. The characters are pure good guys and bad guys, and there is no psychological activity. From the single gender of the characters in his works, we can also see his prejudice against women, which vaguely reveals his mentality of suffering. In addition, Verne's works are full of obvious social tendencies. He is a patriot (French is the best), a national liberator (supporting the oppressed national struggle), an anarchist to some extent (showing disorder in some works), and finally a galactic imperialist (with the desire to create a cosmic empire).
But on the whole, Verne's attempt was great. Although all his works are trivial, they still excite us after reading them. As the Pope said when he met Verne in 1884, "It's not that I don't know the scientific value of your works, but what I cherish most is their purity, moral value and spiritual strength."