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Title: The Green Ray by Jules Verne ISBN: 0-8095-3074-0 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Difficult Heroines Soak Summer's Last Rays . . .
Comment: Verne's Helena hears of the Green Ray from a newspaper article. Delphine of French director Eric Rohmer's "Summer" hears friends discussing Verne's book. And so the book cannot help but be of interest to fans of Rohmer's eccenetric talkies. It is worth the read, but a few warnings might be in order.
Rohmer writes and directs in a post feminist age in which love is universally viewed as the perogative of the lovers, but in which its expression is so free and expected that nothing is clear to the lovers.
Verne writes to a rationalist age in which the attitudes of science and business are ascendant, romance is presumed to follow suit, and so love is not clear to anyone except the lovers.
Those expecting Verne to be writing about the lovers will be disappointed. Rohmer writes about lovers, and in retrospect it is easy to see how Rohmer got his idea from Verne. But Verne writes about social expectations and matchmaking. The irony is all the higher in realizing that Rohmer dwelt on the insights of the matchmakers in other movies, notably Autumn's Tale, but not in Summer.
Both heroines are annoying. Verne's is psychotically so. When compared with, say, a Jane Austen heroine, she is impulsive and one dimensional. But perhaps she is all that is required in a short moral tale. Because I expected more, and because the book is so dated in its context and references, I gave it only three stars, but fans of Rohmer's movie should add back one star. And students of romantic history, because of a rare reference to an old Gaelic tradition, St. Olla's Fair, apparently resembling the Roman festival of Lupercalia (pre-Valentine's), should add back another star.
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Title: Journey Through the Impossible by Jules Verne, Edward Baxter, Jean-Michel Margot ISBN: 1591020794 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Vanished Diamond by Jules Verne ISBN: 1410100901 Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Mighty Orinoco (Early Classics of Science Fiction) by Jules Verne, Stanford L. Luce, Arthur B. Evans, Walter James (Introduced By) Miller ISBN: 0819565113 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Keraban the Inflexible: Adventures in the Euxine by Jules Verne ISBN: 1589634640 Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Desert of Ice by Jules Verne ISBN: 1410100278 Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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