{"id":3225,"date":"2012-06-27T18:41:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T16:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:40:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:40:35","slug":"jules-verne-precurseur-de-zazie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/2012\/06\/27\/jules-verne-precurseur-de-zazie\/","title":{"rendered":"Jules Verne, pr\u00e9curseur de Zazie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is undeniably a certain form a humor in the books of Jules Verne<\/a>, but of a rather inoffensive kind, and the distracted geograph Paganel<\/a> would probably be dismissed rather curtly by such a lively girl as Queneau’s Zazie<\/a>. Nevertheless, while re-reading Les enfants de Capitaine Grant<\/i>, I found a magnificent sentence that, I think, even Zazie would approve:<\/p>\n

\nLes petits gar\u00e7ons et les petites filles, plus rageuses surtout, s’administraient des taloches superbes avec un entrain f\u00e9roce.
\n(Les enfants du Capitaine Grant<\/i>, 2\u00e8me partie, Chapitre XVI)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is basically untranslatable; the literal meaning is something like<\/p>\n

\nThe boys and girls, even fiercer, exchanged superb blows with extreme alacrity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

but English words fail me to convey the finer meaning of taloche<\/i>…<\/p>\n

And I was reading this book because, believe it or not, Jules Verne is now a Pl\u00e9iade<\/a><\/i> author! Of course, grudgingly, since only four of his novels were deemed worthy of this supreme honor of French letters. In addition to Les enfants…<\/i>, we have 20000 lieues sous les mers<\/i> and L’\u00eele myst\u00e9rieuse<\/i>, a trilogy, and Le sphinx des glaces<\/i>, but obviously some strong reactionary faction must have resisted any attempt in adding De la terre \u00e0 la lune<\/i>, or K\u00e9raban le T\u00eatu<\/i>, or Hector Servadac<\/i>, or…<\/p>\n

I also had not realized before the embarrassing chronological problems of the trilogy: Les enfants…<\/i> happens in 1864–1865; 20000 lieux…<\/i> begins in 1866; but then L’\u00eele myst\u00e9rieuse<\/i>, which is supposed to take place twelve years after the first part, begins in 1865…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is undeniably a certain form a humor in the books of Jules Verne, but of a rather inoffensive kind, and the distracted geograph Paganel would probably be dismissed rather curtly by such a lively girl as Queneau’s Zazie. Nevertheless, while re-reading Les enfants de Capitaine Grant, I found a magnificent sentence that, I think, … Continue reading Jules Verne, pr\u00e9curseur de Zazie?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,362,1185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-language","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}