Un voyageur qui peint, un voyageur qui écrit… Le double (?) regard de Gustave Guillaumet
A Traveller Who Paints, a Traveller who Writes… The Double (?) Look of Gustave Guillaumet

Author(s): Małgorzata Sokołowicz
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Gustave Guillaumet; travel; text; image; intermediality; Algeria
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between text and image in the works of Gustave Guillaumet (1840-1887), a French painter, who – after having several times visited Algeria – started to publish in Nouvelle Revue short stories inspired by his travels. After his death, they were edited conjunctly under the title Tableaux algériens (1888) and constitute, altogether with Guillaumet’s paintings, an interesting example of intermediality. Following the brief presentation of the artist, three types of relationships between his texts and paintings are to be defined: equivalence, explication and correspondence. From those relationships emerges a particular type of traveller, the one who paints and writes, but who also carefully observes the world and tries to render it in his works, regardless of the medium chosen.

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