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Later Gainsbourg began to move beyond this and experiment with a succession of musical styles: Many of his songs contained themes with a bizarre, morbid or sexual twist in them. Gainsbourg describes this chore as so monotonous, that the man eventually thinks of putting a hole into his own head and being buried in another.

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During this period, Gainsbourg began working with Greco, a collaboration that lasted throughout the 'Left Bank' period culminating in the song La Javanaise in the fall of He performed a few duets in with the artist Philippe Clay , with whom he shared some resemblance. Around this time, Gainsbourg met Elek Bacsik. He pleased Gainsbourg, despite knowing that such a sound would not allow him access to success.

The album sold only 1, copies. The decision was taken right upon leaving the studio: Performed by French teen and charming singer France Gall , it won first prize. Gainsbourg had written the song with double-meanings and strong sexual innuendo of which the singer was apparently unaware when she recorded it. Whereas Gall thought that the song was about a girl enjoying lollipops, it was actually about oral sex. The controversy arising from the song, although a big hit for Gall, threw her career off-track in France for several years.

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Gainsbourg arranged other Gall songs and LPs that were characteristic of the late s psychedelic styles, among them Gall's album. His relationship with Brigitte Bardot led to a series of prominent pop duets, such as Ford Mustang and Bonnie and Clyde. In , he released Je t'aime Originally recorded with Brigitte Bardot , it was released with his future girlfriend Birkin when Bardot backed out. While Gainsbourg declared it the "ultimate love song", it was considered too "hot"; the song was censored or banned from public broadcast in numerous countries and in France even the toned-down version was suppressed.

The Vatican made a public statement citing the song as offensive. Despite or perhaps because of the controversy, it sold well and charted within the top ten in many European countries. Histoire de Melody Nelson was released in This concept album , produced and arranged by Jean-Claude Vannier , tells the story of a Lolita -esque affair, with Gainsbourg as the narrator.

It features prominent string arrangements and even a massed choir at its tragic climax. In , he released the album Rock Around the Bunker , an album written entirely on the subject of National Socialism. Gainsbourg used black comedy , as he and his family had suffered during World War II, being forced to wear the yellow star as the mark of a Jew.

Rock Around the Bunker belonged to the mids "retro" trend. Cabbage-Head Man is one of his nicknames, as it refers to his ears. He would go on to produce two reggae albums recorded in Jamaica and and two electronic funk albums recorded in New York and Following harsh and anti-semitic criticism in right-wing newspaper Le Figaro by Charles de Gaulle biographer Michel Droit , his song earned him death threats from right-wing veteran soldiers of the Algerian War of Independence , who were opposed to their national anthem being arranged in reggae style.

In , a show had to be cancelled, because an angry mob of French Army parachutists came to demonstrate in the audience.

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Alone onstage, Gainsbourg raised his fist and answered "The true meaning of our national anthem is revolutionary" and sang it with the audience. The soldiers joined them, a scene enjoyed by millions as French TV news broadcast it, creating more publicity. Shortly afterward, Gainsbourg bought the original manuscript of "La Marseillaise". Bob Marley was furious, when he discovered that Gainsbourg made his wife Rita sing erotic lyrics. The album, although now considered a masterpiece by French critics, was a commercial failure.

After a turbulent year relationship, Jane Birkin left Gainsbourg. His appearances seemed devoted to his controversial sense of humour and provocation.

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He would show up drunk and unshaven on stage: Gainsbourg spat out at her, "You're nothing but a filthy whore, a filthy, fucking whore". For many in France, this incident was the last straw, and much of his later work was overlooked, since mostly done and performed inebriated.

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The most successful of these are: Verne could now live on his writings. But most of his wealth came from the stage adaptations of Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours and Michel Strogoff , which he wrote with Adolphe d'Ennery. His brother Paul contributed to 40th French climbing of the Mont-Blanc and a collection of short stories — Doctor Ox — in Verne became wealthy and famous.

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Meanwhile, Michel Verne married an actress against his father's wishes, had two children by an underage mistress, and buried himself in debts. Though he was raised Catholic, Verne became a deist in his later years, from about onward. On 9 March , as Verne was coming home, his twenty-six-year-old nephew, Gaston, shot at him twice with a pistol. The first bullet missed, but the second one entered Verne's left leg, giving him a permanent limp that could not be overcome.

This incident was hushed up in the media, but Gaston spent the rest of his life in a mental asylum. After the death of both his mother and Hetzel, Jules Verne began publishing darker works.

In , Verne entered politics and was elected town councilor of Amiens , where he championed several improvements and served for fifteen years. The Voyages extraordinaires series continued for several years afterwards at the same rate of two volumes a year. In , Verne's great-grandson discovered his ancestor's as yet unpublished novel Paris in the Twentieth Century which was subsequently published in Verne's largest body of work is the Voyages extraordinaires series, which includes all of his novels except for the two rejected manuscripts Paris in the Twentieth Century and Backwards to Britain published posthumously in and , respectively and for projects left unfinished at his death many of which would be posthumously adapted or rewritten for publication by his son Michel.

However, Verne's growing popularity among readers and playgoers due especially to the highly successful stage version of Around the World in Eighty Days led to a gradual change in his literary reputation. As the novels and stage productions continued to sell, many contemporary critics felt that Verne's status as a commercially popular author meant he could only be seen as a mere genre-based storyteller, rather than a serious author worthy of academic study.

However, the decades after Verne's death also saw the rise in France of the "Jules Verne cult", a steadily growing group of scholars and young writers who took Verne's works seriously as literature and willingly noted his influence on their own pioneering works. Their praise and analyses, emphasizing Verne's stylistic innovations and enduring literary themes, proved highly influential for literary studies to come.

In the s and s, thanks in large part to a sustained wave of serious literary study from well-known French scholars and writers, Verne's reputation skyrocketed in France. Since these events, Verne has been consistently recognized in Europe as a legitimate member of the French literary canon, with academic studies and new publications steadily continuing. Verne's reputation in English-speaking countries has been considerably slower in changing. Wells than as a topic of literary study in his own right. This narrow view of Verne has undoubtedly been influenced by the poor-quality English translations and very loosely adapted Hollywood film versions through which most American and British readers have discovered Verne.

These early English-language translations have been widely criticized for their extensive textual omissions, errors, and alterations, and are not considered adequate representations of Verne's actual novels. It's a bizarre situation for a world-famous writer to be in. Indeed, I can't think of a major writer who has been so poorly served by translation.

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Similarly, the American novelist Michael Crichton observed:. Verne's prose is lean and fast-moving in a peculiarly modern way … [but] Verne has been particularly ill-served by his English translators. At best they have provided us with clunky, choppy, tone-deaf prose. Since , a considerable number of more accurate English translations of Verne have appeared. However, the highly criticized older translations continue to be republished, due to their public domain status and in many cases their easy availability in online sources.

The relationship between Verne's Voyages extraordinaires and the literary genre science fiction is a complex one. Wells , is frequently cited as one of the founders of the genre, and his profound influence on its development is indisputable; however, many earlier writers, such as Lucian of Samosata , Voltaire , and Mary Shelley , have also been cited as creators of science fiction, an unavoidable ambiguity arising from the vague definition and history of the genre. A primary issue at the heart of the dispute is the question of whether Verne's works count as science fiction to begin with.

Maurice Renard claimed that Verne "never wrote a single sentence of scientific-marvelous". I wrote Five Weeks in a Balloon , not as a story about ballooning, but as a story about Africa. I always was greatly interested in geography and travel, and I wanted to give a romantic description of Africa. Now, there was no means of taking my travellers through Africa otherwise than in a balloon, and that is why a balloon is introduced. Closely related to Verne's science-fiction reputation is the often-repeated claim that he is a " prophet " of scientific progress, and that many of his novels involve elements of technology that were fantastic for his day but later became commonplace.

Thomas speculated that Verne's storytelling skill and readers misremembering a book they read as children caused people to "remember things from it that are not there. The impression that the novel contains valid scientific prediction seems to grow as the years roll by". Ray Bradbury summed up Verne's influence on literature and science the world over by saying: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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