2016
Cairn
Gaëlle Reneteaud, « L’Islande et la France. Construction d’un espace rêvé et fantasmé du Grand Nord dans la littérature française au xixe siècle », Études Germaniques, ID : 10670/1.q1ughm
Three novels will, in the nineteenth century, appear in French literature, a piece of the North in the North, Iceland, those disorienting and terrifying aspects so impress the traveler and the reader as a contorted landscape that they allow imagination and dream to unfold. These novels are : Hans of Iceland by Victor Hugo, Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne and An Iceland Fisherman by Pierre Loti. Victor Hugo exacerbates the monstrosity of an Icelander ; For Pierre Loti, this is the same location of the land that is death, the sea that surrounds it is the tomb of the sailors. Conversely, Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, is not only an evocation of a dream space, but an exotic trip to a little known geographical space. The North is least perceived as a geographical space as a set of landscape and ethnographic qualities whose intensity increases with latitude.