In the 19th century, a net of knowledge about cultural differences of the populations of Americas imprint the edition assign to instruction and entertainment of the young French people. One of the 62 Voyages Extraordinaires of Jules Verne, published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel, is set between Peru and Brazil: La Jangada, huit cents lieues sur l'Amazone (Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon - 1881). Around the juvenile production that grows and expands in the transatlantic trade of the French bookstore, a psychogenesis of Brazil shines through. By this angle, the analytic way opened by the sociologist Norbert Elias helps to face the problem of the human emotions in the travel novel and also helps to consider the mimetic activity in the book of science and entertainment.
Jules Verne; Norbert Elias; Emotions Control; Psychogenesis of Brazil; Sociology of the Literature