This article studies the organ on board the Nautilus from three points of view: the technical object, a metonymy of the submarine as a whole; the machine for producing “musical ecstasy” that produces the atmosphere of melancholy that envelops Nemo; the function of music and the relationship that, through the instrument, brings together the novel’s two essential fluids: the sea, “living infinity,” and electricity, “soul of the universe,” to create the superior harmony that exalts Nemo’s and the Nautilus’s superhumanity.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques