Les voyages polaires de Jules Verne

• Main Author: Frédérique Rémy
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités 2019-06-01
• Series: Cybergeo
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/32455

Five books of Jules Verne, published from 1855 to 1897, have for their central theme the polar regions and five other books are happening at one time or another at the poles. In the mid-nineteenth century, the poles are still far from being reached and the surrounding areas remain relatively unknown. Some travel stories begin to be published, Jules Verne will be strongly inspired by its. He will then create a landscape "of a sinister beauty", oxymoron that reflects all the anguish and fear that pervade the explorers and all the beauty that nevertheless fascinates them. The ice of Jules Verne, lives, moves, dances with the waves, it is in perpetual movement, its forms vary abruptly, the colors of the sky, the ice or the animals evolve very quickly. Physical phenomena such as: refraction, phosphorescence, electricity... also participate in this sinister beauty. How, from the few elements he possesses, Jules Verne creates a fascinating world, used latter by writers, popularizers or journalists?