Comparative Literature. 19th C French and 19th and 20th C Czech and Argentine feuilletons. I'm a credentialed expert on Count of Monte Cristo, among other things.
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"Le comte de Monte-Cristo", one of the first hacker thrillers, where he man-in-the-middles network communications to change financial information in order to bankrupt his rivals. Also, social engineering.
Yes. Which is not surprising given that it was first published in the newspaper. Same newspaper, same section, as Jules Verne published much of his work in. Also worked on Karel Capek, tho not RUR. His prose was also virtually all released in the newspaper.