10.11.2025
quelques inventions, peut-etre ?
electric cars, gasoline-powered engines, high-speed trains, glass and steel skyscrapers, underground subways, air conditioning, elevators, automated security systems, fax machin...
Verne's dystopian vision of Paris in 1960 — ruled by finance, speed, and machinery.
Young Michel Dufrénoy, a poet, wanders through a cold, electric metropolis.
Science and industry dominate; literature and beauty are obsolete.
He fails to find love, meaning, or recognition in a mechanized society.
The story ends in isolation and despair — the poet buried beneath technological triumph.
Verne’s "lost" novel: a prophetic elegy for imagination in an age of machines.
