Deux ans de vacances Du livre au feuilleton : le merveilleux géographique interrogé

Geographical novels were a particular type of literature invented by Jules Verne. These novels portray what Lionel Dupuy calls the merveilleux géographique (geographically marvelous). Through a study of Vernes’s Deux ans de vacances (1888) and the Franco-German-Romanian television series of the same name, directed by Claude Desailly (1974), we propose to answer the following question: Was the passage from page to screen detrimental to what made the merveilleux géographique written form so successful at the time?