Open AccessNicolas Bouvier : Le corps médiateur
Author(s) -
Gilles LOUŸS
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
viatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2275-0827
DOI - 10.52497/viatica392
Subject(s) - humanities , art , philosophy
In The Japanese Chronicles, Nicolas Bouvier presents a full experience of being in the world, where all the senses are engaged, smell and taste in particular. Bouvier recalibrates the question of the body in travel narratives and shows how the senses can inform knowledge about the other, as organs of intercultural mediation. The sensorial notes of the text become tools for anthropological knowledge, calling on the body.