“Triangulate or die”, a Fantasy and three Novels by Jules Verne

This report brings the Paris Commune insurrection into dialogue with four works by Jules Verne published between 1871 and 1873: Une fantaisie du docteur Ox, Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais dans l’Afrique australe, Le Pays des fourrures, and Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours. It considers them as a dynamic and coherent whole, gives an account of the shock wave that traveled through the novelist’s work, and describes the effort it took to conjure up the event he was involved in.