De Ceylan à l’Écosse : le « Voyage dans les Lowlands » de Nicolas Bouvier, ou l’art de rapprocher les cultures
In the 1980s, Nicolas Bouvier travelled not only to the East, where he had discovered cultures thousands of years old, but also to Ireland and Scotland. The “Voyage dans les Lowlands”, less well known than the Journal d’Aran, mischievously inverts the relationship between the age of the traveller an...
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| description | In the 1980s, Nicolas Bouvier travelled not only to the East, where he had discovered cultures thousands of years old, but also to Ireland and Scotland. The “Voyage dans les Lowlands”, less well known than the Journal d’Aran, mischievously inverts the relationship between the age of the traveller and the age of the countries he visited: after visiting "the old", Bouvier turns to "the young" to regain a little freshness, but he does not see these experiences as separate. Spatial decentring takes the form of an intimate refocusing: Bouvier orientalises Scotland, a country about which he knows almost nothing at the outset, but which gradually joins his vision of history and the mosaic of cultures, where all connections are good for recreating the harmonic sphere of creation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1ecaf57112454434a6dafa0eef5edadb2024-04-04T09:35:16ZengUniversité Clermont AuvergneViatica2275-08271110.4000/viatica.3757De Ceylan à l’Écosse : le « Voyage dans les Lowlands » de Nicolas Bouvier, ou l’art de rapprocher les culturesLiouba BischoffIn the 1980s, Nicolas Bouvier travelled not only to the East, where he had discovered cultures thousands of years old, but also to Ireland and Scotland. The “Voyage dans les Lowlands”, less well known than the Journal d’Aran, mischievously inverts the relationship between the age of the traveller and the age of the countries he visited: after visiting "the old", Bouvier turns to "the young" to regain a little freshness, but he does not see these experiences as separate. Spatial decentring takes the form of an intimate refocusing: Bouvier orientalises Scotland, a country about which he knows almost nothing at the outset, but which gradually joins his vision of history and the mosaic of cultures, where all connections are good for recreating the harmonic sphere of creation.https://journals.openedition.org/viatica/3757historydecentringScotlandEastcultures |
| spellingShingle | Liouba Bischoff De Ceylan à l’Écosse : le « Voyage dans les Lowlands » de Nicolas Bouvier, ou l’art de rapprocher les cultures Viatica history decentring Scotland East cultures |
| title | De Ceylan à l’Écosse : le « Voyage dans les Lowlands » de Nicolas Bouvier, ou l’art de rapprocher les cultures |
| title_full | De Ceylan à l’Écosse : le « Voyage dans les Lowlands » de Nicolas Bouvier, ou l’art de rapprocher les cultures |
| title_fullStr | De Ceylan à l’Écosse : le « Voyage dans les Lowlands » de Nicolas Bouvier, ou l’art de rapprocher les cultures |
| title_full_unstemmed | De Ceylan à l’Écosse : le « Voyage dans les Lowlands » de Nicolas Bouvier, ou l’art de rapprocher les cultures |
| title_short | De Ceylan à l’Écosse : le « Voyage dans les Lowlands » de Nicolas Bouvier, ou l’art de rapprocher les cultures |
| title_sort | de ceylan a l ecosse le voyage dans les lowlands de nicolas bouvier ou l art de rapprocher les cultures |
| topic | history decentring Scotland East cultures |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/viatica/3757 |
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