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Paris in the Twentieth Century
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Paris in the Twentieth Century was one of the first science-fiction novels written by Jules Verne, but the last to be published — in 1994, after lying forgotten in a safe for over a hundred and twenty-five years.While a good read, the novel isn't Verne's best. What makes it very interesting, however, is the accuracy of its many predictions about the future. Verne wrote the novel in 1863, and it is set in the far-off futuristic world of 1960. Verne did a remarkably good job of predicting the world one hundred years in his future. Amusingly, one of the reasons his novel was not published for so long is that publishers originally felt his predictions to be too unrealistic.As an initially unpublished (and largely unedited) work, the novel is closer to Verne's post-Protection from Editors style than the writings most readers will be familiar with, particularly in regards to its cynicism. Verne imagines the Paris of 1960 as a bleak dystopia where art and creativity are stifled, and cold-hearted pragmatism, logic, commerce, and industrial development are the only things that anyone cares about. This attitude probably stems from Verne's early job as a stock broker, which he hated from the bottom of his heart, and which caused his lifelong contempt of Corrupt Corporate Executives and their worldview.Michel Dufrénoy, the protagonist, is one of the last students of the humanities graduating from his university, a cause for shame for his family, and endless misery and failure for him throughout the story as he struggles to survive alone in a cold, mechanized world without losing his identity. (Today in the real world, people would likely tell him to prepare for a lifetime of serving fries...) The depressing tone and message of the novel is the other, and likely bigger, reason why it was initially denied publication and remained forgotten for so long — a first sign of Hetzel's lifelong editorial pressure, as he felt them too ingrained in the novel to be edited out, and canned it indefinitely. | |
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True Art Is Ancient | |
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True Art Is Ancient: invoked Invoked in-universe. The major characters are contemptuous at best of everything produced in the last century, whether literary, musical, or visual. | |
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain | |
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: It's set in slushy deep winter in a sprawling (then) futuristic City Noir version of 1960's Paris. | |
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Neon City | |
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Neon City: Verne accurately envisioned this as the natural evolution of the City of Lights, a nickname already well-established with the early adoption of gaslamp streetlighting in the Paris of his day. Combined with some imagined refinements to his time's electric arc lamps that hit close to the mark on florescent lighting, you have another eerily precient parallel to the future cyberpunk genre that also manages to forsee Paris's prominence in the neon-loving Art Deco movement. | |
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Nephewism | |
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Nephewism: Michel lives with his aunt, his father's sister. So he is trapped with Monsieur Boutardin who consider him a shame for his artistic qualities, like his father. | |
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Romanticism Versus Enlightenment | |
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Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: A core theme of the book, and very much gunning on the side of Romanticism. | |
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Ludd Was Right | |
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Ludd Was Right: Technology makes life in the 1960s cold, impersonal, and pointless. | |
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Born in the Wrong Century | |
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Born in the Wrong Century: Dufrénoy and his friends, though many of the latter are older and have learned to fit in for pragmatic reasons. | |
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Zeerust | |
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Zeerust: Though calculating machines take the place of computers, records are still kept in books. In this case, a colossal book apparently four meters tall, whose pages are turned with machinery. Also, fashions and some aspects of daily life are still very reminiscent of the 19th century and there is apparently no air transport (except the odd airship or two, probably). The clothing is also made of spun metal, the closest approach Verne could make to synthetic fibers before the development of polymers. | |
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Lonely Together | |
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Lonely Together: There are few people left in Paris who care about art, ideals, or anything else that isn't practical and pragmatic, so they are very happy when they encounter each other by chance. | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: The work as a whole was clearly Verne raging against the industrial era assimilating his beloved pre-"City of Lights" Paris. | |
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Snow Means Death | |
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Snow Means Death: The last chapters of the book take place during winter. And a lot of emphasis is put on how this is the only thing technology hasn't solved for people and that people are dying even while driving the trains. This is less a matter of a failed prediction and more a matter of Verne's cynical insight that things like giving the engineer some futuristic equivalent to his day's heating stoves would be a low priority to executives in no danger of freezing to death. | |
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Future Music | |
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Future Music: The music pieces have names relating to technology ("Thiloriade, Great Fantasia About Condensation Of Carbonic Acid") and sound like an unrhythmic, jumbled mess of noises. | |
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Port Town | |
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Port Town: Paris became one with the construction of a canal, making it common to see huge ships in the middle of Paris. | |
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New-Age Retro Hippie: Unbuilt Trope. And it's actually set in The '60s! | |
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Dogged Nice Guy | |
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Dogged Nice Guy: Michel and his relationship with Lucy. | |
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Black Sheep | |
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Black Sheep: Michel is considered useless by his whole family. To make matters worse, his family is one of the most powerful in all Paris. | |
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No New Fashions in the Future | |
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No New Fashions in the Future: Downplayed, almost to the point of aversion - particularly nicely when the characters decry the far more utilitarian clothing of modern French women - but most fashions still seem to be based on 19th century clothing and its principles. | |
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Extruded Book Product | |
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Extruded Book Product: The theater has descended to this level, with teams of writers each specializing in some small aspect of writing. Good action and sex scene writers are highly prized. | |
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Author Filibuster | |
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Author Filibuster: Deserving of special mention is the chapter dedicated to describing how the composer Wagner and his "cult" of imitators with their harsh angsty new sound were clearly going to ruin music FOREVER. (Sound familiar?) | |
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A Degree in Useless | |
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A Degree in Useless: Scathingly deconstructs the attitudes that produce this trope. A society without creativity and the arts is a cold, emotionally dead world. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive / Mega-Corp: In the 20th century, they run the world. | |
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Steampunk | |
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Steampunk: Bizarrely averted in large part, surprising given that many identify Verne as a core inspiration for the genre. Verne - as was typical for him - foresaw that steam would not be the main source of power in 1960. He bet on compressed air and electric motors instead, with the sum total falling more toward Diesel Punk than anything else. | |
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The Alternet | |
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The Alternet: Likely Ur-Example, as the book made a prediction of networked calculating machines, "picture-telegraphs" (which did exist in Real Life during the 1890s, but on smaller scale), and other forms of instant long-range communications. | |
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Cyberpunk | |
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Cyberpunk: On the note of Punk Punk, modern readers may note eerie similarities between the themes of this story and that genre. It can also be considered an unbuilt prototype for the modern Dystopia. | |
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