Le Testament d'un excentrique
William J. Hypperbone, l'un des plus éminents membres de l'Excentric Club de Chicago, vient de mourir, laissant une fortune de 60 millions de dollars et aucun héritier. Son testament éveille la curiosité et cause un grand émoi : il lègue sa fortune à celui des six participants choisis au hasard qui gagnera une partie fondée sur les règles du « Noble Jeu de l'Oie » et qui s'intitule « Le Noble Jeu des États-Unis ». Le jeu, qui se déroulera sur l'immense territoire américain, sera mené par le notaire Tornbrock, qui jettera les dés tous les deux jours et qui enverra ainsi les participants d'un État à l'autre, le gagnant étant celui qui arrivera le premier à la soixante-troisième case.
Ce roman, s'il demeure l'un des moins connus de Verne, a été l'un de ceux qui aura le plus influencé des écrivains comme Raymond Queneau, Julio Cortázar, sans oublier Georges Perec. Le Figaro.
Illustrations de l'édition originale Hetzel.
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Ce roman, s'il demeure l'un des moins connus de Verne, a été l'un de ceux qui aura le plus influencé des écrivains comme Raymond Queneau, Julio Cortázar, sans oublier Georges Perec. Le Figaro.
Illustrations de l'édition originale Hetzel.
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne ( VURN; French: ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account contemporary scientific knowledge and the technological advances of the time.
In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games.
Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.
Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking below Agatha Christie and above William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.
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