Éclairer la figure du voyageur à la fin des Lumières: du "Voyage à l’île de France" de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre au projet de sa réédition
Highlighting the Figure of the Traveller at the End of the Enlightenment: from the "Voyage à l’île de France" by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre to the Plan for its Reissue

Author(s): Alain Guyot
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre; travel account; figure of the traveller; Indian Ocean; literarity
Summary/Abstract: It is now widely known that the Voyage à l’île de France (1773) by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is no longer seen as an engineering thesis, but not yet as a literary work, mainly because of the far too little place given to the figure of the traveller. Nonetheless, it is less known that, in a reissue project which was never completed, the author intended to give to this figure a more important place. For what reasons? In what way? This paper will attempt to answer those questions.

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