« Je m’attache tristement, amèrement aux lieux que je vais quitter ». L’écriture autobiogéographique dans les "Carnets du voyage en Égypte" d’Eugène Fromentin

• Authors: Małgorzata Sokołowicz

Abstracts

EN

The present paper analyses Carnets du voyage en Égypte by a French painter and writer, Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876), using the concept of autobiogeography. The concept allows to examine how the author of a geographical description may be seen throughout this description and how s/he is influenced by the space. The paper argues that the personality of Fromentin emerges from his travel notes even though they are focused mainly on the description of the Egyptian space and the forms “I” or “we” appear there rarely. Three aspects of Fromentin’s personality may be seen through the analyses of his geographical descriptions of Egypt: the Orientalist painter enthusiastic towards the space; the traveler marked by his previous travels to Algeria who in Egyptian spaces sees Algerian ones; and the man who feels old and tired, refuses to discover the Egyptian space and who just wants to come back home.

Keywords

EN

Eugène Fromentin; autobiogeography; Egypt; travelogue

FR

Eugène Fromentin; autobiogéographie; Égypte; récit de voyage

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Cahiers ERTA
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 32
• Pages: 10-28

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Sokołowicz

• Université de Varsovie

• https://orcid.org/000000018150390X

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

20874574