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Verne’s characters are at a crossroads in history, since space is shrinking so rapidly in the nineteenth century. The demand for virgin territory can dearly not be satisfied for much longer in an era where ‘to go around the world has become just a tourist trip’ and even Himalayan peaks are covered with inscriptions like ‘Durand, dentiste, 14, rue Caumartin’ (ER, 1882, 43; MV, 1880, 277).1
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Notes to Chapter 1: The Warrior of the Unknown
Jean Ricardou, Nouveaux problèmes du roman (1978) (pp. 24–36), makes a first step towards analysing how a solid object can be ‘generated’ by a linear description, but only as regards a brief (and largely parenthetical) passage.
See William Butcher, ‘Les Dates de l’action des Voyages extraordinaires: Une Mise au point’, BSJV no. 67, 3e tri. 1983, pp. 101–3.
Simone Vierne, Jules Verne et le roman initiatique (1973), pp. 604–30;
Jean Delabroy, ‘La Machine à démonter le temps’, in Jules Verne 3 (1980), ed. François Raymond, pp. 15–23;
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Butcher, W. (1990). The Warrior of the Unknown. In: Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Self. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20824-1_1
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