Leurres et malheurs de la description chez Jules Verne ou l'impossible légitimation des Voyages extraordinaires

Aiming to become literary by way of description, Verne was actually relegated to the margins by this same description, carried away towards science by realism. This irony doubles as a paradox: anticipated as an agent of literariness, description was for Verne a privileged place of borrowings. Between the sublime and pedagogy, between creation and reproduction, description testifies to the paradoxes of writing in the Voyages extraordinaires.