The boundless imagination of Jules Verne inspired explorers, scientists and inventors , his novels have been made into a film and theater and now his legacy, and those who implemented with varying success, star in an exhibition at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid.
“Jules Verne. The limits of the imagination” will be open 6 November to 21 February 2016 and will be accompanied by a program of activities including concerts, screenings, workshops and lectures that will help you better understand the contributions of the writer and how it influenced the society of his time.
Verne (Nantes, 1828 – Amiens, 1905) their curiosity and thirst for knowledge made him one of the most prolific, popular and influential writers of world literature, with nearly a hundred works published, documenting hard, hence were many which moved the exploits and adventures of his pen to reality, 27 of which are present in this sample.
“He showed the limits of the imagination are great and everything a man can imagine may be developed by others, “he said Thursday during the presentation Miguel Angel Delgado, curator of the exhibition along with Maria Santoyo.
Pioneers as the first Spanish explorers in Africa, Manuel Iradier and Julio Cervera Bavaria, journalist Nelly Bly, the first woman to circumnavigate the world in 72 days beating the record of the famous character Phileas Fogg, and the inventor of the first electric submarine, the Spanish navy Isaac Peral.
Also explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, a captain Hatteras flesh and blood that was determined to be the first to cross Antarctica from end to end. Ten images of this expedition, whose negatives were found frozen last year in Antarctica, shown in Spain for the first time.
One of the jewels of the exhibition is one of only three copies of the globe Monfort, and the first world edition of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (1869) which, being plunged Verne’s home country in the Franco-Prussian War, was Spanish.
Illustrations for his characters, mills present in his novels the induction coil, part of the library that handled to map their works, marine navigation tools, photographs by Walker Evans of places traveled by Phileas Fogg, unpublished images and sounds of the musical “Around the World” ( 1946) are also part of the exhibition
As the first underwater photographs, the work of biologist Louis Marie Auguste Boutan, or the first air, Nadar.; engravings and illustrations of flying machines, posters related to man’s obsession to travel to the moon and engravings of French authors of the nineteenth century ventured scientific advances of 2000.
All collective universe that has its epicenter the author of “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and “Michael”, considered by many the father of modern science fiction, but “he did was pass through his literary legacy progress that characterized the world of second half of the nineteenth century. “
EFE
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