Index


Aborigines (Australian), 50, 51, 112
  see also blacks
adverbs
  in general, 57, 119-20, 124, 125, 130, 131,  
     139, 140, 142
  past-context, 120
  present-context, 120
agoraphobia, 8, 9
altruism, 103, 106-8
Americas, 11, 14, 103, 124
Americans, 21, 30, 48
anonymous narrator (EA), 52, 53, 89-91
anthropomorphism, 96
  see also man-machine
anti-Semitism, 48-9
  see also Jews; racism
anticipations
  scientific, 2
  in plots, 30, 34, 76, 171
anxiety, 26, 42, 58, 99, 109, 114
arborescences, 22-5, 27, 104
Ardan (AL, TL), 38, 44, 71, 72, 75, 84, 113
Aronnax (20M), 72, 94, 100, 107, 161
Arthur Gordon Pym, The Narrative of, 14, 18, 29
author within fiction, 28-30, 37, 47, 90
  see also narrator; Verne, Michel
auto-cannibalisation, see cannibalisation
auto-cannibalism, see cannibalism 
Aventures de trois Russes et trois Anglais, 13
Axel (VCT), 61-70, 73-4
Balzac, 1, 32, 34, 166
Barthes, Roland, 38, 76
Beckett, Samuel, 152
beginnings of works, see openings of works
  see also endings
Bellemin-Nol, Jean, 5, 151, 156
Benveniste, Emile, 118-19, 154
bibliography, 190
blacks, 49-53
  see also racism
body, human or ship's, 94-7
branching structures, 21-4
camera-eye technique, 141
Camus, Albert, 122, 149, 167
cannibalisation, 97-8, 101-2
cannibalism, 98-103 
Capitaine de quinze ans, 49
Capitaine Hatteras, Voyages et aventures du, 4,
     13, 14, 19, 30, 65, 67, 69, 111
Cartesianism, 21
chance, see Providence      
Chancellor (the novel and the ship), 4, 5, 29-32,
     98-100, 103, 132-55, passim
characters, see under anonymous narrator, Axel,
  Aronnax, Clawbonny, Fogg, Hatteras, Kazallon,
  Kin-Fo, Lidenbrock, Nemo, Rosette, Servadac,
  Strogoff, Zacharius, Zartog
Chasse au m{t{ore, 88, 173
children, 165
Chteau des Carpathes, 33, 35
Cinq semaines en ballon, 4, 14, 78
Clawbonny (CH), 18, 19, 161
clocks, 3, 85-7, 92
closed forms and structures, 9, 76-80, 112-13,  
     157-61
coastline, 11, 18
Comp}re, Daniel, 165
corpus, 4, 10
correspondence from and to Verne, 193
Creation, 60, 62-4, 72
Creationism, 52, 53
Cretan Liar Paradox, 108, 146, 160
Crusoe, Robinson, 15
  see also Defoe
Cuvier, 43, 53
cycles, 78-83, 88-92
Darwin, 25, 47, 51, 53, 106
  see also evolution
Defoe, Daniel, 46, 49, 166
  see also Crusoe
Delabroy, Jean, 3, 84, 94, 133, 165
De la Terre @ la Lune, 4, 35
determinism, 47
diaries, 134-5, 149, 166
'Docteur Ox', 84, 107
'Drame au Mexique', 31, 49, 84
Drame en Livonie, 43, 45
dreams, 38, 67-71
eating, 95-9
  see also cannibalism
editions of Verne's works, 190-2
elements (principally earth and water), 10-11,
     23-5
endings, 33-6, 129
  see also openings of works
endogamy, see under closed forms; introversion
Enfants du capitaine Grant, 4, 13, 76
English, 48, 165, 172 
equilibrium, 32, 82
'Eternel Adam', 5, 31, 32, 37, 40, 53, 54, 61,   
     88-91, 93, 127, 133, 134, 162-3, 173
  see also Verne, Michel
ethics, 102
Etonnante aventure de la mission Barsac, 4, 129,
     133, 153, 167, 173
evolution, 25, 51-4
  see also biology
Face au drapeau, 4, 37, 132-55
family, 104-5
feedback, 80-9
fictional time, 29-34, 168-71
  see also narrative time; Ricardou
Figures III, 29, 36
flashback, 168
Flaubert, 122, 126, 152, 166
flying fish, 52
Fogg (TM), 3, 111, 124
  see also Tour du monde
footnotes, 29-30, 36-7
fossils, 64-7
France, 54, 66
free indirect style, 120, 138-41
free style, 138-9
French
  people, 48
  language, 118-121, 133
future
  time, 2, 46, 56, 57, 90
  tenses, 37, 68, 144-8
Genette, G{rard, 29, 36
geometric progression, 83
Germans, 48
Giant Shepherd (VCT), 52, 65-8, 71-4
Gdel, Escher, Bach, 76
Gondolo della Riva, Piero, 5, 172, 173
Hamburger, Kte, 119, 144
Hatteras, 13, 14, 19, 38, 54, 67, 69, 82, 111
Hector Servadac, 3, 49, 71, 151
Hetzel, Jules, 2, 13, 50
history, 1-2, 55-8, 66-74, 88-94, 156-9
  see also past; prehistory
Hofstadter, Douglas, 76
homosexuality, 101, 105
humour, 81, 83
Ile @ h{lice, 4, 33, 35, 132-55
Ile myst{rieuse, 4, 15, 24, 30, 33, 45, 156
illustrations, 36-40
Imbs, Paul, 122
imperfect tense, 123-6
incest, 104-7
Indes noires, 8, 37
indirect style, see under free indirect style
interior monologue, 138, 139, 155
introversion, 77, 82, 106
  see also self-contained
Jews, 48, 89, 92
  see also racism
'just-so' reasoning, 44, 46
Kazallon (C), 100, 102, 137, 150
Kin-Fo (TCC), 101
Lamarckism, 47, 52, 54
  see also evolution
lattice, 21, 24
layers, geological, 61-6
Lidenbrock (VCT), 54, 64, 65, 72-4, 94, 105, 111,
     125
linear forms and structures, 11-16, 19, 23-6, 42-
     5, 75
  see also one-dimensional
logic, 42-8, 107-8
love, 85
machines, 82-3, 95-8, passim
Magasin d'{ducation et de r{cr{ation, 57, 60
Matre du monde, 37
'Matre Zacharius', 2, 85-7, 92-3, 111
man-machine, 97, 98, 124
manuscripts, 5, 99, 173
Martin, Andrew, 165
Martin, Charles-Nol, 164
'Martin Paz', 21, 49, 84
Marx, 97, 163
mathematics, 8, 39, 98, 108, passim
Mathias Sandorf, 12, 16, 37, 123
mechanics, 86, 110-13
  see also science
meridian, 13
'message' of Verne's works, 156
messages-in-bottles, 127-9
metaphors, 10-11, 63-4, 94-7, 165
Michel Strogoff, 26, 123
'miscegenation', 50, 101
missing-link, 4, 51
  see also Village a{rien
Mission Barsac, Etonnante aventure de la, 4, 129,
     133, 153, 167, 173
Mistress Branican, 31-3
modernity, 83, 93
monsters, 64, 82
Mor{, Marcel, 101
music, 47, 151
narrataire, 126, 146
narrative time, 29-32, 168-71
  see also fictional time; Ricardou
narrator, 29-32, 89-91, passim
  see also author
natural history, 55
Nature, 22-7, 79-82, passim
Naufrag{s du 'Jonathan', 88, 173
Nautilus (20M), 10, 78
negativity, 150-3
Nemo (20M), 4, 10, 14, 46, 106, 110
one-dimensional, 2, 13-17, 61
  see also linear forms
open-ended future, 148
openings of works, 33-6, 134
  see also endings
optimism,see under pessimism
oxygen, 93, 97, 106
paratexte, 36
  see also footnotes, titles, illustrations
pass{ compos{, 118-122, 130-1, 141-2
pass{ simple, 36, 56, 57, 118-23, 130-1, 142-3
passivity, 152, 158
past
  tenses, 118-31, 150-2
  time, 47-50, 54-74, 156-60, passim
  see also history; prehistory
pastiche, 5, 37
Pays des fourrures, 60, 61
perpetual motion, 81, 86
person, third, 132, 140, 148
pessimism, 66, 89-91, 156
Phare du bout du monde, 10
photography, 39
Pilote du Danube, 88, 110, 173
plots, 2, 29-41, 168-71
Poe, Edgar Allan, 14, 29
  see also Arthur Gordon Pym; Sphinx des glaces
polar regions, 7, 13, 14
post hoc reasoning, 44, 46
posthumous works, see under Verne, Michel;
     'Eternel Adam'; Etonnante aventure de la
     mission Barsac
predictions, see under anticipations, scientific
prehistory, 61-74
present
  tense, 112-13, 118-20, 127-55
  time, 46, passim
prophetic, 167
Protestantism, 92
Providence, 28, 45-7
Pym, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon, 14, 18, 29
racism, 48-53
rape, 101, 105
Raymond, Fran\ois, 3, 5, 76, 90, 151, 156, 165
realism, 15, 16, 25, 38, 63, 69, 124
  see also Romanticism
relatives, 104-6
reputation, Verne's public, 85, 163-7
Ricardou, Jean, 168-71
rivers, 11-13
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 56
Robur-le-conqu{rant, 4, 37, 41, 76, 83
RRomanticism, 1, 21, 54, 69, 124
  see also realism
Rosette (HS), 44, 71
Roudaut, Jean, 3, 133, 135
Russell, Bertrand, 108
Sans dessus dessous, 3, 5, 30, 42
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 26, 122, 167
science, 43, 73-5, 109-16, 161, 165, 166, passim
  see also mechanics
science-fiction, 15, 52, 73, 108, 164-6
scientism, 83, 97
sea, 7, 9-12, 20
self-annihilation, 107, 153
self-contained, 78, 102-11
  see also introversion
self-knowledge, 90, 93, 163
self-reference, 126, 129, 131
Serres, Michel, 105, 133, 166
Servadac, Hector, 151
set-theory, 103
sex, 96-104, 114-15
ships, 76-80, 96-8
  see also boats
Soci{t{ Jules Verne, 5, 173
solipsism, 107-9, 112, 153
solitude, 110
Soriano, Marc, 101
space-filling curve, 27
speech acts, 109
Sphinx des glaces, 14, 18
straight line, 76
  see also linearity
strata, geological, 61-66
stream of consciousness, 138, 141
Strogoff, Michel, 26
structuralism, 76, 79
Suvin, Darko, 110, 164
symmetry, 21, 32, 34, 40, 79
tenses, 118-55
Testament d'un excentrique, 21, 104
third person, 129, 132, 140, 146
time-loop, 107-8
time-machine, 75
time-scale, 14, 42, 69, 74
time-travel, 68, 70-5, 107-8, 158-9, 166
titles of chapters, etc., 36, 53
Tour du monde en quatre vingts jours, 3-4, 33, 35,
     76
tourism, 5, 8
Tournier, Michel, 166, 167
translations, 165, 172
two-dimensional, 8, 9, 21, 63
underground cavern (VCT), 8-9, 63-8
unfinished message, 128
verisimilitude, 69-71, 75, 165
  see also realism
Verne, Jules, see individual titles; Voyages
     extraordinaires
Verne, Michel (son of Jules and contributor to the
     Voyages extraordinaires), 5-6, 40, 52, 53,
     88-93, 110, 167, 172-3, passim
  see also 'Eternel Adam'
vicious circle, 84, 86, 92, 99
Vierne, Simone, 3, 165
Village a{rien, 4, 50-3
  see also missing-link
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, 7, 30, 65, 76,
     123, 129, 153
  see also Nautilus; Nemo
Voyage au centre de la Terre, 4, 7, 9, 29, 31, 32,
     61-74, 107, 133, 145, 158
Voyages extraordinaires, 1, 3, 5, 37, 61, 88, 91,
     154, 156-60, 172-3     
  see also under individual titles
waiting, 152
Weinrich, Harald, 118-19, 149, 154
Wells, H.G., 60, 73, 164
white man, 58, 62, 158
  see also racism
written form, 17-19
Zacharius, Matre, 2, 26, 41, 85-7, 92-3, 103,
     105, 111
Zartog (EA), 53, 89-91, 93, 110