La isla misteriosa

With "The Mysterious Island", Jules Verne put the finishing touch to his first and brilliant period as a writer and also to that kind of triptych that he forms with two other titles, essential in his career due to the great narrative ambition that distinguishes them: "The Sons of Captain Grant" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". Science, the positivist approach to reality, knowledge of the resources offered by nature and their use by castaways trying to get ahead are several of the pillars on which "The Mysterious Island" rests, but they are not the only ones . In its framework, materials of very different origins are detected, the result of the author's readings and intense documentation work, but what attracts us with its own intense light and reveals the radical originality of his proposal is the adjective that accompanies the scene of the adventure: the island is mysterious. It is a mystery that has us in suspense until the end, as in Verne's great novels. A mystery that honors its origin and translates into the search for and the revelation of a secret, the one that the island hides in its bowels, and that requires us to penetrate deeper and deeper to try to reveal it and make sense of all the work.