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Abstract

Travel as an act of displacement is a human activity that borders on need. This cultural constant forms the backdrop of works from antiquity, through the journey of Ulysses, the journeys of knights, explorers, missionaries, romantics, etc. For the human soul, travel is an irrevocable necessity as it is a meritorious source of learning as H. Miller asserts: “A destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things”. This is what we see again in the journey undertaken by Isabelle Eberhardt that we will discover through her work Notes de route: Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie, a kind of Saharan odyssey. Our goal will be achieved if we show how this work, the subject of so many readings and criticisms, testifies to prolixity by folding back on unexplored territories similar to the southern lands. For a calibrated response, our study takes two unthinkable paths. First, it is interesting to approach the genre of this work and measure it against the journalistic profession of the writer and the hegemony of her aisthesis. Part dedicated to staging as a textual place of “pactisation” around the parrêsia of the narrated, which reveals the stumbling of this process on the furrow of the impossible impressions to bypass. Taken over by phenomenological micro-narratives, effusions, subjective manifestations of the intimate self, play against this reading contract. The second part seems to be the major stake of our study. The text tells us how to trace an experience of investment in an “aesthetics of existence”, incantatory accent of the work, carried out through the quest for identity and ontological authenticity.

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