Skip to main content

Sylvain Forge and Jules Verne

Social Media researches across YouTube and through following WordPress blogs has yielded an exciting new detective fiction writer who both lives in Nantes and has set at least two of his novels in the city.  The main character in the stories is Capitaine de police Isabelle Mayet who moves to Nantes in Forge’s 2014 novel, La Trace du Silure.  




In his next work, Un Parfum de soufre (2015) Capitaine Isabelle Mayet again investigates in the city.  In a YouTube video, filmed here in Nantes, Sylvain talks about how the intrigue takes place in the Jules Verne Museum.

I am ordering my copies of these and look forward to writing more on Forge’s work for my travel writing research project on Nantes.



Jules Verne was born in Nantes

Jules Verne was born in Nantes on 8 February 1828. It is nearly the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth. The house is marked with a bronze plaque, which I found during my stay at the Maison of Researchers. The address of the birthplace is 4 Rue Olivier-de-Clisson on the Île Feydeau, although the Verne family moved a year later to 2 Quai Jean-Bart. Then, at the age of 6, Jules went to school at 5 Place du Bouffay; he boarded there. In fact he did not leave Nantes until he was sent away to law school in Paris in 1847, so literary explorers, who are fans of Verne’s novels of great voyages, can enjoy immersing themselves in the atmosphere of Nantes, knowing that Verne was absorbing these same experiences to form his imaginaire.





 


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Thank you. Please do a SHARE too...

Follow by Email

Followers

Popular posts from this blog

AI Detector

I've been looking at AI Detectors that are now stable and easy to use. The first one to write about is from a company based in Montreal, and so, as you would expect from that bilingual city, it works on English and French texts. It's called Winston AI. The AI detector tells you if written copy is generated by a human or an Artificial Intelligence text generator robot. It uses a graphic sliding scale. The software also detects plagiarism and presents a thorough list of any copied content it has found. As a user of Winston AI you just paste text into the quick scan option. You can upload bigger documents in the following formats: .docx, .pdf, .png and .jpg for the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system to convert to electronic text from scanned documents or pictures. This also works on handwriting like Google Lens and the other handwritten text readers and convertors do. The Winston AI Detector works in projects, this lets you label or title pieces you are examining for plagi...
Post a Comment
Read more

Imagining Tourists and Tourism Conference Paris

Imagining Tourists and Tourism Conference - Paris 19-21 June 2024 Aims of the Conference The conference aims to explore the links between tourism and fiction, and more precisely to consider tourism and tourists as fictions. It is part of a series of conferences organized since 2011 by researchers from the Universities of Geneva, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Berkeley to explore the links between tourism and the imaginary. The first four meetings had evoked how tourism mobilized imaginaries specific to destination countries, their landscapes, their cultures and their inhabitants. The fifth conference will focus on the imaginary that applies to tourists themselves. Imaginary tourists We will examine how the various actors of tourism, as well as the places and practices of tourism, appear in works of fiction. Literature, cinema, theater, song, advertising, etc., stage tourist configurations, which are sometimes at the very heart of these fictions.  Fictional tourists include those invent...
24 comments
Read more

The Space in Mill Bay

Millbay, Saturday 3 August 2024 Samedi. A decade has passed since Sam Ferguson published his question* on the innovative story by André Gide, called, Paludes . In English that book title could be rendered as Swamps, or, Sourpool, perhaps. Plymouth's Sourpool is recorded in 1439 when the town's boundary was fixed during its incorporation as a Devon borough. The record reads ‘between the hill called Windy Ridge – by the bank of the Sourpool – against the north all the way to the great dyke otherwise called the great ditch’.  Damp, mossy, ferny, even swampy boundaries blurred the edges of the space we call Millbay today. Paludes occupies a critical point of experimentation in the trajectory of published diary-writing […] exploring the possible relationship of the diary with the literary œuvre, and its capacity for addressing philosophical and aesthetic questions. The pertinence of this experimentation to the modern field of life-writing makes this a suitable moment for anothe...
11 comments
Read more