Jules Verne's English Translations.
This article offers a detailed comparison of the original French editions of Jules Verne's "Voyages Extraordinaires" and their English translations. Many of Verne's most popular novels were severely abridged, simplified, and ideologically censored in their English-language versions. Several of these...
| Published in: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 80 - 105 |
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University of California Press
Mar2005
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| Summary: | This article offers a detailed comparison of the original French editions of Jules Verne's "Voyages Extraordinaires" and their English translations. Many of Verne's most popular novels were severely abridged, simplified, and ideologically censored in their English-language versions. Several of these bowdlerized translations became the "standard" editions of Verne's works in the UK and the US and are still being published today. As a result, most anglophone readers of Verne have never had the opportunity to read the real Verne. It seems clear that these poor translations are largely responsible for Verne's reputation in anglophone countries as a prescient but non-literary writer of adventure stories for children. More modern and accurate English translations of Verne's oeuvre are needed to correct this misconception. |
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