| Creator Maurice Renard (1875-1939) |
| Profession Writer |
| Total Entries 18 |
| Articles The fantastic science fiction of Maurice Renard — OpenEdition Journals SF Tuesday: the “wonderful scientist”, or the hour of glory of mad scientists — Liberation Merveilleux-scientifique — Wikipedia |
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It was in October 1909, in the symbolist journal Le Spectateur, that Renard, who nicknamed himself the ‘scribe of miracles’, laid the foundations of his new genre, merveilleux-scientifique, with the publication of a manifesto-like text titled Du roman merveilleux-scientifique et de son action sur l’intelligence du progress, or ‘On the Scientific Marvellous and Its Influence on the Understanding of Progress’. Renard did not claim to have invented the merveilleux-scientifique genre, nor did he seek to assume its paternity; rather, he attempted to trace its lineage and establish its rules of composition in order to ensure its wider dissemination within the literary world. He wanted to mark a clear break from Verne (written down in his archives, his main purpose is to ‘demolish Jules Verne’), a highly symbolic act of patricide. Departing from works such as Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) or Michel Strogoff (1876), which recount journeys of peril and discovery, Renard distanced himself from the model of the scientific adventure novel. ~ Merveilleux-scientifique — Aeon.co
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