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This provocative new study contends that Jules Verne was indeed more than just a writer of science fiction or harmless fantasies for children. Placing him squarely within the center of a strong literary tradition, Martin convincingly shows that a recurrent narrative, describing the strange destiny of a masked prophet who revolts against an empire, runs throughout Verne's Voyages extraordinaires. This theme, Martin argues, illuminates the paradoxes of realism and invention, repression and transgression, and imperialism and anarchy. Verne emerges not only as a key to the political and literary imagination of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but as a model for fiction in general.
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Scott Sherman
reviewed The Mask of the Prophet: The Extraordinary Fictions of Jules Verne on June 03, 2016
The Mask of the Prophet: The Extraordinary Fictions of Jules Verne
Literally enjoyed reading this book, something that for me is a bit unusual, considering the fact that its a book about the understanding of a man about another man. To me, its a hard task, specially in the case of George Bataille. Or maybe I just haven't found good books like this one around. It's not perfect, but the impact it had on me was perfect. I still remember it and have some regard about it. The main thing about this book is, it doesn't try to make Georges Bataille a hero nor a loser, which is something that usually happens, specially when a man is known for being a little extreme. This book turns George Bataille against himself, exposing the things that are understood to be good and bad in his work and in a way in his personality(but its very non confrontational in this quality), and what good things we can isolate from both sides. Beautiful.
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