Ce que lire fait au voyage : Lapérouse au Kamtchatka (1787)
This article tries to propose a new analyse of the problem of intertextuality in travel literature, examining a specific passage of Lapérouse’s “Voyage”: the stopover in Kamchatka. Literally haunted by Cook, Lapérouse sometimes seems to confuse real space with the space of the story, making a strang...
| Published in: | Viatica |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English French |
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Université Clermont Auvergne
2020
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.52497/viatica1296 https://doaj.org/article/e80b656bb085487cb5e80ff14a605370 |
| Summary: | This article tries to propose a new analyse of the problem of intertextuality in travel literature, examining a specific passage of Lapérouse’s “Voyage”: the stopover in Kamchatka. Literally haunted by Cook, Lapérouse sometimes seems to confuse real space with the space of the story, making a strange attempt to “re-stage” the characters his predecessor had met. We propose here a re-reading of this episode in the light of the "triple mimesis" system developed by Paul Ricoeur. We’ll try to measure the effect of the travel narrative on reality. Lapérouse, re-writing Cook, performs a literary as well as a political gesture. |
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