Revue semestrielle de linguistique et littératures romanes

Écho des études romanes 2008, 4(2):39-52 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2008.019

Description de l’indescriptible chez Jules VerneFrench

Jean-Pierre GOLDENSTEIN
Université du Maine

Description of the indescribable in the work of Jules Verne

The poetics of description gave rise to a lot of scholar work during the last decade. Can everything be described with words? This paper lays the foundations of a poetics of non-description based on various novels by Jules Verne. For this author, description aims at representing the world of course. Yet one can find in his novels traces of some impossible attempt to description. The paper analyses the various causes for this impossibility which sometimes results in absolute clichés. Jules Verne willingly uses a real stereotype in his novels: « it is impossible to portray… ». And yet he does portray anyway…: the analysis of a paradox.

Keywords: Jules Verne; novel; description; poetics of non-description

Published: December 11, 2008  Show citation

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GOLDENSTEIN, J. (2008). Description de l’indescriptible chez Jules Verne. Écho des études romanes, 4(2), 39-52. doi: 10.32725/eer.2008.019
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