Verne, Jules 1828 1905 fr 31 250135 <p>Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828–March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to Index Translationum. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".</p> <p>Source: Wikipedia</p> Wallace, Lewis 1827 1905 en 1 15537 <p>Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, American statesman, and author, best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.</p> Von Sacher-Masoch, Leopold 1836 1905 de 2 13176 MacDonald, George 1824 1905 en 4 8477 <p>George MacDonald (10 December 1824 — 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. <br />Though no longer well known, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels) have inspired admiration in such notables as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle. For instance C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master". Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, he began to read: "A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence." <br />Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling." <br />Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald. <br />Source: Wikipedia</p> Allais, Alphonse 1854 1905 fr 1 4677 <p>Alphonse Allais est un journaliste, écrivain et humoriste français célèbre à la Belle Époque. Surtout connu pour sa plume acerbe et son humour absurde, il est l'auteur méconnu des premières peintures abstraites : ses monochromes Combat de nègres dans une cave, pendant la nuit, Récolte de la tomate sur le bord de la mer rouge par des cardinaux apoplectiques, etc., présentés au Salon des Arts Incohérents, précédent d'une génération le Carré blanc sur fond blanc de Kasimir Malevitch, généralement considéré comme le premier exemple en la matière. Il est aussi, bien avant John Cage ou Erwin Schulhoff, l'auteur de la première composition musicale minimaliste : sa Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd, est une page de composition vierge, parce que « les grandes douleurs sont muettes ». </p>