Abstract: Nerval left for the Orient in 1842. He stayed in Cairo where he cohabited with a slave he had bought and, searching for a soul sister, went on to Beirut and the mountains. The impressions and observations provoked by these settings led him to think about alterity in terms above and beyond the exotic.
Keyword: Littérature du xixe siècle, récit de voyages au xixe siècle, scénographie dix-neuviémiste, Le Caire au xixe siècle, orientalisme romantique, femme romantique, esclavage en Orient au xixe siècle, mythologies
