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Abstract

The eminently intimate call from the outside makes it possible to densify the relationship to the world on condition that it is in accordance with the affinities of the traveler. Thus, With Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), her attachment to the place stems in particular from the fact that she will never return there. Sahara, chosen land of the wanderer, is a chosen landscape that she tries to live and describe in its endless variations. Although the departure is an act of postage, the meaning of the journey is acquired over the course of the journey, and we will question ourselves in our article on the modalities of movement specific to the desert space, as well as on the mobile thought that unfolds within Écrits sur le sable. In order to contribute to the literary reception of Eberhardt’s travelogues while taking into account the singularity of her approach, we ask the following questions: How is vagrancy defined by Isabelle Eberhardt? Is wandering with Isabelle Eberhardt not an opportunity to discover oneself How vagrancy played a fundamental role in the act of going away, as we see with Isabelle Eberhardt, who feels the visceral need for an outside that deports her from herself? The vagabond longs to join “the road that goes all white, towards the distant unknowns” [Ecrits sur le sable, p. 28]. Thus is elaborated throughout the Écrits sur le sable a rhetoric of vagrancy, where the call from the outside is a tension towards the horizon and where the value of places left behind is understood in proportion to the distance, the absence back.

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