L'aventure mystérieuse de Poe à Merrit ou l'Orphelin de Gilgamesh

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L’essence même de la fiction, c’est l’aventure. Des premiers romans grecs jusqu’aux contemporains, on n’a cessé de célébrer le voyage vers l’inconnu, géographique ou mythique. Malgré la disparition des taches blanches sur les cartes, l’aventure moderne a gardé intact son rapport à l’imaginaire et au mystère. Parallèlement à la colonisation se développe au 19e siècle un genre littéraire populaire qui fait intervenir le fantastique, le merveilleux et même la science-fiction. Qu’on explore l’Atlantide ou le centre de la Terre, les pôles ou les forêts les plus impénétrables, le cadre est “ vraisemblable ”, celui des terres vierges qu’explorent les conquérants modernes. Ces “ orphelins de Gilgamesh ” découvrent des mondes oubliés, peuplés de créatures monstrueuses ou féeriques. C’est à un véritable voyage au pays des merveilles qu’est convié le lecteur, à travers un panorama des œuvres les plus marquantes de l’“ aventure mystérieuse ” , d’Edgar Allan Poe à Abraham Merritt, en passant par Henry Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle et Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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