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This article highlights the link between travel and erotics as a literary trope, exemplified by Johannes V. Jensen’s story ”Louison” ( 1899 ). ”Louison” describes the short-lived affair between a male traveller and a loose woman. From their first encounter on a Parisian boulevard, loaded with baudelairian esthetics, to their sudden parting after a day and a night spent together, their relationship is made possible by the anonymity of the modern city and by the condition of modernity. The erotic encounter in Jensen’s story is inextricably connected — like in Baudelaire — to the modern urban backdrop against which it unfolds. In Jensen’s story, the erotics of travel feeds into the ”myth of Paris”: far from being merely the story of an erotic encounter, ”Louison” is also the vivid description of a fin-de-siècle Paris, swarming and buzzing with constant, multiple energies that unify in a totality elevated to the dimensions of ”myth” — a word charged with significance in Jensen’s work.

Paris’ hjerte Johannes V. Jensen og rejsens erotik