TEHRAN – “Uncle Robinson” by outstanding French novelist, poet and playwright Jules Verne has been published in Persian and is available to Iranian young adults readers.
The book has been translated into Persian by Zahra Fallah Shahroodi. Tehran-based Qoqnoos Publishing has released the novel in 299 pages.
“Uncle Robinson” which was rejected by Verne ‘s publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1870. The manuscript was first published in 1991 by Cherche-Midi Éditeur, then was included in the collection ‘Le Livre de Poche’ in 2001.
It was around 1861 that Jules Verne thought of taking up the myth of Robinson Crusoe in his own way – and perhaps competing with JD Wyss’s Swiss Robinson.
The success of ‘Five Weeks in a Balloon’ led the novelist towards other projects, but the manuscript was found in his archives, acquired in 1981 by the City of Nantes.
Stranded on a desert island in the Pacific after the mutiny of the crew of the sailboat that was taking them to the United States, a couple and their four children must learn to survive, helped by Uncle Robinson, a sailor who remained faithful…
An inexhaustible source of dreams for Jules Verne, the theme of castaways was to reappear in ‘The Mysterious Island’. The writer gives it here an expression characteristic of his style, and likely to fascinate today’s readers.