Language:
French
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Controverses; revue d'idees
Angaben zur Quelle:
5 (2007) 193-218
Keywords:
Verne, Jules,
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
French literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Jules Verne was also a political writer, as well as a novelist. He was a fierce opponent of slavery and a humanist, who nursed strong anti-capitalist views and associated Jews with money, which he despised. Most of his works contain at least a hint of antisemitism, the most caricatured portrait being that of the usurer Isac Hakhabut in "Hector Servadac" (1877). States that Verne's antisemitism - economic, social, and racist in nature - was anything but innocent. It was an expression of conscious ideological choices, with a strong influence of utopian socialism.
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