The future writer was born in 1828 on February 8 in Nantes. His father was a lawyer, and his mother, half Scottish, received an excellent education and took care of the house. Jules was the first child, after him another boy and three girls were born in the family.

Study and writing debut

Jules Verne studied in Paris as a lawyer, but at the same time was actively involved in writing. He wrote short stories and librettos for Parisian theaters. Some of them were staged and even had success, but his real literary debut was the novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, which was written in 1864.

A family

The writer was married to Honorine de Vian, who by the time she met him was already a widow and had two children. They got married, and in 1861 they had a common son Michelle, the future cameraman, who filmed several of his father's novels.

Popularity and travel

After the successful and critically acclaimed first novel, the writer began to work a lot and fruitfully (according to the recollections of Michel's son, Jules Verne spent most of his time at work: from 8 am to 8 pm).

It is interesting that since 1865 the cabin of the yacht "Sen-Michel" became the writer's office. This small ship was bought by Jules Verne while working on the novel "Children of Captain Grant". Later, the yachts "San Michel II" and "San Michel III" were purchased, on which the writer sailed in the Mediterranean and Baltic seas. He visited the south and north of Europe (in Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway), in the north of the African continent (for example, in Algeria). He dreamed of sailing to St. Petersburg. But this was prevented by a strong storm that broke out in the Baltic. All travel had to be abandoned in 1886, after being wounded in the leg.

Last years

The last novels of the writer differ from the first ones. There is fear in them. The writer renounced the idea of \u200b\u200bthe omnipotence of progress. He began to understand that many achievements of science and technology would be used for criminal purposes. It should be noted that the last novels of the writer were not popular.

The writer died in 1905 from diabetes. Until his death, he continued to dictate books. Many of his novels, not published or completed during his lifetime, are published today.

Other biography options

• If you follow the short biography of Jules Verne, it turns out that in 78 years of his life he wrote about 150 works, including documentaries and scientific works (only 66 novels, of which some are unfinished).
• The writer's great-grandson, Jean Verne, a famous opera tenor, managed to find the novel "Paris of the XX century" (the novel was written in 1863 and published in 1994), which was considered a family legend and no one believed in its existence. It was in this novel that cars, an electric chair, and a fax were described.
• Jules Verne was a great fortuneteller. He wrote in his novels about an airplane, a helicopter, video communications, television, about the Trans-Siberian Railway, about the Channel Tunnel, about space exploration (he almost accurately indicated the location of the cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral).
• The writer's works were filmed in different countries world, and the number of films based on his books has exceeded 200.
• The writer has never been to Russia, but in 9 of his novels the action takes place in the then Russian Empire.

Verne Jules (1828-1905), French science fiction writer.

Born February 8, 1828 in Nantes. The son of a lawyer and a lawyer by training. He began to publish in 1849. At first he appeared as a playwright, but his plays were not successful. The first fame for Verne was brought by the novel "Five weeks in a balloon", which was published at the end of 1862 (although dated 1863).

Verne has proven to be an unusually prolific writer - he has written 65 science fiction and adventure geography novels. Sometimes he wrote satirical works, ridiculing contemporary French bourgeois society, but they succeeded much less and did not bring glory to the author.

He was made truly famous by "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), "Children of Captain Grant" (1867-1868), "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1869-1870), "Around the World for 80 days "(1872)," Mysterious Island "(1875)," Fifteen Years Captain "(1878). These novels have been translated into many languages \u200b\u200band read with interest all over the world.

It is curious that the author of books on travel has not made a single long journey himself and wrote, relying not on experience, but on knowledge and (mainly) on his own imagination. Jules Verne often made rather gross mistakes. For example, in his novels one can find a statement about the existence of museums where skeletons of octopuses are exhibited; meanwhile, the octopus is an invertebrate animal. However, the amusement of Jules Verne's stories atoned for such flaws in the eyes of readers.

The writer adhered to democratic convictions, corresponded with the utopian socialists, in 1871 he supported the Paris Commune.

While promoting science, he repeatedly warned about the danger of using its achievements for military purposes. It was Verne who became the first creator of the image of a mad scientist dreaming of world domination ("500 million Begums", 1879; "Master of the World", 1904). Later, fiction more than once resorted to characters of this kind. Besides works of art Verne wrote popular books on geography and the history of geographical research.

The writer has always been very popular in Russia - since his first novel was translated into Russian in 1864 (in Russian translation "Air travel through Africa").

A crater on back side The moon. He died on March 24, 1905 in Amiens.

Born in the ancient French city of Nantes in the family of a lawyer. At the age of 11, secretly from his parents, he hired a cabin boy on a schooner going to India, but just a few hours later he was returned home. The passion for travel, expressed in this act, subsequently spilled over into the pages of his books. Studied jurisprudence in Paris. In 1849, having passed the exam for a licentiate of rights, he abandoned his career as a lawyer, preferring the half-starved existence of a novice writer.
He began as an author of minor plays, In 1850 his play "Broken Straws" was successfully staged in Historical theater A. Dumas (1802-1370) and withstood 12 performances. In 1852-1854 he worked as secretary of the director of the Lyric Theater, then was a stockbroker, without stopping to write comedies, librettos, short stories. From 1853 he plunged headlong into the study of achievements in various fields of knowledge, especially in geography, physics and mathematics, accumulating as a result, almost 20,000 record cards. It is no coincidence that the scientist became the hero of his first novel. This novel from the future cycle "Unusual Travels" - translated in 1864 under the title. "Air Travel Through Africa") was published in 1863 in the Journal for Education and Leisure. The success of the work inspired the author. He decided to continue to work in this "vein", accompanying the romantic adventures of his characters with ever more skillful descriptions of the incredible, but nevertheless carefully thought out scientific miracles born of his imagination. The cycle was continued by the novels "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865), "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1869), "Around the World in 80 Days" (1872), "The Mysterious Island" ( 1875), "Fifteen Years Captain" (1873) and others. In total, J. Verne wrote about 70 novels. In them he predicted scientific discoveries and inventions in a wide variety of fields, including submarines, scuba gear, television and space travel. His work was abandoned by the romance of science, belief in the good of progress, admiration for the power of thought. He also sympathetically describes the struggle for national liberation. In his novels, readers found not only an enthusiastic description of technology, travel, but also vivid and vivid images of noble heroes of handsome eccentric scientists. In his latest works, a fear of the use of science for criminal purposes appeared, the belief in constant progress was replaced by an anxious expectation of the unknown. In a number of novels, the image of a scientist-misanthropist striving for world domination appeared ("500 million Begums", 1879; "Lord of the World", 1904), or a scientist who became an instrument of tyrants who use science for criminal purposes ("Alignment with the Banner", 1896 ). He opposed the use of the achievements of science in the interests of the rich (story "In the XXIX century - One day of an American journalist in 2889", 1889; novel "Floating Island", 1895). However, these books were never very successful. In 1892, the writer became a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Author of works on geography and the history of geographical research.
Many of Verne's novels were successfully filmed: the French director J. Méliès (1861-1938) in 1907 made the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (this novel was filmed again in 1954 by Walt Disney (1901-1966)). This was followed by the film adaptation of "The Mysterious Island" 0929, 1962, 1973; 1941 - in the USSR), "Children of Captain Grant" (1936; 1962, 1985 - in the USSR), "From the Earth to the Moon" (1958), "Travel to the Center of the Earth" (1959) and the most famous film adaptation of "Around the World in 80 days "(1956). A crater on the far side of the Moon is named after him.

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) is a world famous and incredibly popular French writer and geographer. It is he who is considered the founder literary genre science fiction. He is a member of the French Geographical Society, and his books have long been worldwide literary heritage.

Childhood

Jules Verne was born on February 8 in the French city of Nantes. His father was a hereditary lawyer, about whom a good half of the small town knew, and his mother - Scottish by birth - taught literature at school for some time. Many bibliographers believe that it was she who instilled in the young Jules a love of literature, since his father saw in him only another representative of a generation of good lawyers.

Being between two so different people - a lawyer-father and an art-loving mother - Verne from childhood doubted who he wanted to become. While studying at school, for some time he was fond of reading French literature, which his mother selected for him. But having become a little older, he took up jurisprudence, like his father, and moved to Paris.

In the future, he will even write a short autobiographical story about this, which will tell about his childhood, his mother's desire to make him a man of art and his father's thirst for teaching the boy the basics of jurisprudence. However, this manuscript, created by Verny in a hurry, will be read only by the closest people, after which it will be forever lost as a result of the move.

Youth and early writing career

Having reached the age of majority, Jules Verne decides to leave his family, which at that time was beginning to make him very nervous with their pressure about his future profession, and move to Paris to further study law.

Upon learning of this, the father several times tries to secretly help his son go to law, but whenever Jules Verne finds out about this, he deliberately fails the exams and goes to another university. Ultimately, there is only one law department left in Paris, which Jules dreamed of at that time.

He successfully enters and has been studying at the department for six months, after which he accidentally finds out that his teacher is an old and very good friend of his father, who studied with him at the same school. Realizing that his dad will be trying to "clear" the way for him all his life and not wanting to do anything at the expense of his parents, Vern seriously quarrels with his family and leaves the legal department.

Several years after that pass for Jules worse than he had planned. He tries to stay as far as possible from jurisprudence, however, having knowledge only in this area, he spends all his last money and is forced to live on the street for six months. At the same time, Jules Verne, trying to remember his mother's lessons about art, begins to compose his first work

His friend, whom they met at the faculty, seeing the plight of his comrade, decides to help him and arranges a meeting with the head of the Historical Theater in Paris. He, having studied the work, begins to understand that the talent of Jules Verne should be seen by the general public, so a couple of months later the production of Broken Straws appears on the stage. After that, they learn about the novice writer and help him financially.

In the period from 1852 to 1854 Jules Verne collaborated with the theater. According to many bibliographers, this period can be considered the initial one in Verne's writing career, when he was just mastering a new style for himself and realizing himself in this field. During this period, several stories, librettos and comedies by the author were published, many of which became successful theatrical performances at different periods of time.

Achievement of success and most famous works

Thanks to cooperation with the Historical Theater, Jules Verne found himself as a writer, and from that moment he was imbued with the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating completely new adventure works in which he could describe what other authors have never touched before. That is why he creates his first cycle of works, which he unites under the general title "Extraordinary Travels".

In 1863, the first work from the cycle, "Five weeks in a balloon", was published in the "Journal for Education and Leisure". It receives the most positive reviews from readers, because the romantic line of relationships of the main characters, which so attracts in the book, was supplemented by Verne with a lot of sci-fi innovations, which was a novelty for that time. Realizing that readers like such books, Jules Verne continues to write in this style, as a result of which the cycle is replenished with such works as "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), "Children of Captain Grant" (1867), "Around the World in 80 Days "(1872)," The Mysterious Island "(1874).

After the release of "Unusual Travels" the name of Jules Verne was known to every inhabitant of the country, and later - of the whole world. In his works, everyone could find something for themselves. For some, these are wonderful and incredibly romantic storylines that connect the characters, for others, the presence of well-described adventures, for others, the freshness of scientific ideas and views. Many literary critics rightly believe that Jules Verne was not just the founder of science fiction, but a man who believed that people would stop fighting and begin to acquire knowledge in the field of technology, and forget about wars between nations. This idea can be traced in all his works.

Personal life

The first and only wife of the world famous writer was Honorine de Vian - an ordinary girl from a not very wealthy family. Jules Verne met her in the French town of Amiens, where he arrived at the invitation cousin to his wedding. A strong relationship developed between the young people, and after six months Verne asked for Honorina's hand.

In the marriage, the couple had a son, Michelle. By the way, Jules Verne was not present at the birth, since at that time he was traveling around Scandinavian countries, studying their way of life to write several new works. However, this did not prevent the writer from sincerely and with all his heart to love the family that remained to wait for him in Paris.

Later, when Verne's son Michel grew up, he became seriously interested in cinema. And it is thanks to him that today we can not only read, but also see some of the most successful works of Jules Verne, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Five Hundred Million Begums and many others.

Jules Verne is a prominent representative of writers who so sophisticatedly weaved fiction into reality that it was almost impossible to distinguish it. Knowledge of human nature helped him describe for a century ahead what the people of the twentieth century will live with.

Lawyer and writer

Jules Verne was the eldest of five children in the family of lawyer Pierre Verne and Sophie-Nanina-Henriette Allot de la Fue, who had Scottish roots. Since the profession of a lawyer was not the first generation of Vernov's distinctive features, at first Jules also began to study law. However, the love of writing turned out to be stronger. Already in 1850 the world saw the first production of his play "Broken Straw". It was staged at the Alexandre Dumas Historical Theater. In 1852, Verne began working as secretary to the director at the Lyric Theater, where he stayed for two years. And already in 1854 he tried himself as a stockbroker: during the day he worked, and in the evenings he wrote librettos, stories and comedies. First Publications of Incredible Adventures In 1863, The Journal for Education and Leisure first published Five Weeks in a Balloon, a novel that opened a series of subsequent adventure stories. Readers really liked the author's manner: in unusual conditions, the main characters experience romantic feelings and get acquainted with incredible and outlandish living conditions. Jules Verne understands that people like to read what he likes to invent. Therefore, in the continuation of the cycle, several more novels are published. Among them are "Journeys to the Center of the Earth", "Children of Captain Grant", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Around the World in 80 Days" and others. But not all publishers shared the views of the readers and the writer himself. Thus, in 1863, when Verne wrote his novel Paris in the Twentieth Century, the publisher returned the manuscript to him, calling the author a writer and an idiot. He did not like some of the "unrealistic inventions" that Verne described in great detail. It was about the telegraph, the car and the electric chair.

Family and eternal problems of the son

Jules Verne met his future wife Honorine at a friend's wedding in Amiens. She was a widow and had two children from a previous marriage. The very next year they got married, and in 1871 their son Michel was born. With his only son, there were always some troubles: at school he was one of the worst, besides he was a hooligan, so Jules Verne sent him to a juvenile colony. But then I had to take him from there too: Michel tried to commit suicide. And his father put him on a merchant ship as an assistant. After returning to France, Michel continued to go into debt. But already in 1888 he tried himself in the role of a journalist and writer: several of his essays were published under the name of his father. By the way, after the death of Jules Verne, he wrote his biography and published several novels, which later turned out to be his works. Michel Verne was also a director, it was he who directed several films based on the plots of the novels of Jules Verne.

Traveling for inspiration

Jules Verne often left France. He had not so much a desire to see the world as to change his worldview, to get acquainted with the culture of other peoples. As a geographer, he knew a lot of interesting things, but he realized that he did not know even more. He was interested in scientific discoveries, he was drawn to knowledge both as a scientist and as a writer - after all, in his novels one can trace not only concrete facts from science, but also dreams that will soon become reality. Therefore, it is not surprising that Jules Verne is not afraid to travel on his own yacht to the shores of England and Scotland. In 1861 he sailed to Scandinavia and then to America - in 1867 he visited Niagara and New York. In 1878, Verne traveled on a yacht in the Mediterranean: Lisbon, Algeria, Gibraltar and Tangier were on his route. Four years later, he is drawn to Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. The Russian Empire was also in his plans, but the storm prevented him from reaching what is now St. Petersburg. In 1884 he again plans to sail on his yacht "Saint-Michel III", this time he visited Malta and Italy, again he was in Algeria. All these trips eventually became part of the plots of his books.

What Jules Verne predicted and where he was mistaken in his books

As a science fiction writer, he foresaw many innovations in science. So, many decades before their inventions, his books tell about airplanes and helicopters, the electric chair as a punishment, television and video communications, space flights and satellite launches (then there was not even such a word), the construction of TurkSib and even the Eiffel Tower. But what Verne miscalculated a little was with the ocean at the South Pole and the unexplored continent at the North. Everything turned out to be exactly the opposite. He did not guess and wrote about the cold earth's core. In addition, the "Nautilus" described by him is so perfect that science has not yet been able to make a submarine with such functions.

"To immortality and eternal youth"

In 1896, a tragic incident occurred in the life of Jules Verne: his mentally ill nephew shot the writer in the ankle. Due to injury, Verne was never able to travel. But the plots for the next books were already in the head of Jules Verne, so in 20 years he managed to write 16 more novels and many stories. A few years before his death, Jules Verne became blind and could no longer write himself, therefore he dictated his books to stenographers. Jules Verne died of diabetes at the age of 77. After his death, more than 20 thousand notebooks were written with his hand about various inventions and facts from the history of mankind. The science fiction writer was buried in Amiens, the inscription on the monument that stands on his grave says: "To immortality and eternal youth."

Titles and awards

In 1892, Jules Verne became a Knight Commander of the Legion of Honor. 1999 - Hall of Fame Science Fiction and Fantasy / Hall of Fame (posthumously)

• Jules Verne's books have been translated into 148 languages \u200b\u200bof the world, and he himself is the second most popular author in the world, after Agatha Christie.
• Most often, he worked fifteen hours a day, from five in the morning to eight in the evening.
• "Travel to the center of the Earth" was banned in the Russian Empire in the 19th century. The clergy decided that the book was anti-religious.
• Jules Verne was accepted into the Geographical Society of France thanks to his frequent travels.
• Captain Nemo of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was originally a Polish aristocrat who built a submarine to take revenge on the Russians. But the editor advised to change the details, because Verne's books had already begun to be translated into Russian and sold in Russia.