Détournement de l’image de Paris chez Fāris al-Šidyāq Entre ethnographie ludique et visées polémiques

In Al-Sāq ‘alā al-sāq, Fāris al-Šidyāq effects a return to the golden image created twenty years earlier by Ṭahṭāwī. He distorts stereotypes, eliminating informative rubrics to achieve an exuberant hypertrophy of Paris as city of pleasure and female Paradise, an insistence on the trivial aspects of daily life, and, finally, a ludic ethnography entrusted to three “masks” of the author: the narrator, Fariac, and his wife.