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Nadia Minerva. Jules Verne aux confins de l'utopie.(Book Review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20020322
Author:Evans, Arthur B.

Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001. 235 pp. 18.83 [euro].

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT STUDY of the many permutations of utopian/dystopian thought present in the work of Jules Verne. It examines a number of recurrent themes and ideological undercurrents which might be viewed as either utopian or dystopian in a wide variety of Verne's novels, short stories, and non-fictional writings including Paris au XXe siecle (1863, Paris in the Twentieth Century), Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea), L'Ile mysterieuse (1875, Mysterious Island), Une Ville ideale ...

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