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L' Orient-Express: Du Voyage Extraordinaire Aux Illusions Perdues

L' Orient-Express: Du Voyage Extraordinaire Aux Illusions Perdues

          
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S'il est un train qui a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, c'est bien l'Orient-Express.Aucune etude sur les grands trains qui ne le cite, des dizaines de monographies qui lui sont consacrees. Les fantasmes qu'il suscite, alimentes par une presse deferente et une litterature facile, sont bien connus. Pourtant, tout n'a pas ete dit a son sujet. Ce livre est le premier a fouiller un corpus d'une richesse exceptionnelle: essais sur la question d'Orient, textes publicitaires ou semi-publicitaires, guides touristiques, recits de voyageurs, articles de la presse quotidienne, romans d'aventures, romans policiers, poemes, pieces de theatre ou encore feuilletons. Valery Larbaud, Paul Morand, Agatha Christie et Graham Greene ne sont pas les seuls ecrivains a avoir evoque l'Orient-Express et les textes examines, meconnus pour beaucoup, permettent de mieux cerner la maniere bigarree dont le train a ete decrit, percu et imagine. En envisageant successivement les itineraires de l'Orient-Express, les discours tenus sur le train et ses voyageurs, les recits litteraires et les themes recurrents qui lui sont lies, Blanche El Gammal bat en breche un certain nombre d'idees recues pour finement interroger: pourquoi ce train mythique, presente des ses debuts et aujourd'hui encore comme un trait d'union entre les Etats europeens, a-t-il berce tant de nostalgies complaisantes et, a l'inverse, fait sourdre bien des desillusions ? This essay takes the opposite view of the one upheld by popular beliefs about the Orient Express. It reconsiders the way in which the train has been described, perceived and imagined, and endeavours to measure the gap between the commonly accepted ideas and what transpires from a very diverse body of texts examined along three lines of thought: featured itineraries, debates on the train and its passengers, literary accounts, and the recurrent themes associated with the train. The aim is to show how the Orient Express-a dream programmed by highly effective publicity campaigns and created by powerful geographic, historic and literary fantasy-has failed to fully convince not only the passengers, but also writers and readers. Blanche El Gammal holds an agregation in Classical Literature and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Universite de Strasbourg and Universite de Bruxelles (2016). Her specialty is Cultural and Literary Exchanges of Mitteleuropa. She participated in the exhibition "Il etait une fois l'Orient-Express," sponsored by the Arab World Institute in 2014.
About the Author: Contributor Biography - French Blanche El Gammal est agregee de Lettres classiques et docteur en litterature comparee des universites de Strasbourg et de Bruxelles (2016). Elle s'interesse aux echanges culturels et litteraires de la Mitteleuropa. Elle a participe a l'exposition Il etait une fois l'Orient-Express organisee par l'Institut du Monde Arabe en 2014.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9782251447100
  • Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
  • Publisher Imprint: Les Belles Lettres
  • Height: 0 mm
  • No of Pages: 650
  • Sub Title: Du Voyage Extraordinaire Aux Illusions Perdues
  • Width: 37 mm
  • ISBN-10: 2251447105
  • Publisher Date: 13 Oct 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: French
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 988 gr


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