Lʼimage de lʼAutre entre l’imaginaire et la réalité dans " Voyage en Orient" Recherche présentée par

Abstract

The present research (The Image of the Other between Fiction and Reality in the Book "Journey to the East" by Gerard de Nerval) seeks to clarify the circumstances that contributed to the formation of image of the other in the literary work of Gerard de Nerval, who tried to present an atypical image of the other Egyptian which is free of the rules based on his observations during his stay in Cairo in 1843 and to clarify aspects of the social, historical, cultural and artistic life in Egypt during the first half of the nineteenth century, which witnessed the flourishing literature of the journey to the East. It is found that Nerval was able to present an objective picture of the other different from the other images contained in the literary achievement of other writers and also reached the influence of Nerval on Islam in a number of axes that were discussed in the research as well as his role in the formulation of a new speech recognizes the other and its cultural, in order to promote the desired human interaction between East and West.