Traveller-historian or novelist-philosopher? A few lessons from the imaginary journey
The paper proposes a reflection on the relationship between real and fictitious travellers, between authentic and imaginary journeys. The discursive articulation that makes the traveller witness a subject of speech allows us to define the conditions in which the problematic relationship between the experience of the real world and its narrative is established. It is also on this relationship that the interdependence between the narratives of real journeys and the narratives of imaginary journeys is based. The journey, as an act of narrative, can then be perceived as a figuration or metonymy of fiction itself.