Musique du voyage, musique de l’écriture : Les fondements d’un paradigme dans L’Usage du monde

This article studies the role of music and its paradigmatic foundations in The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier. Far from opposing movement, music accompanies the writer on his travels, sometimes determining his direction. Moreover, music provides rhythm to the journey’s course for Bouvier and his friend Thierry Vernet, side-stepping the aporia of language, constituting an escape-route and a refuge from migration, as well as serving as an instrument for memory.