L’écueil des mondes, suivi de Érotisme interethnique : éthique du voyage chez Houellebecq, Le Clézio et Mauvignier
Written during a journey around the world, L’écueil des mondes is a collection of seven short stories that take place in different places on the planet. The narratives show erotic relationships between travellers and the natives of the countries they visit. The connections are, however, upset by natural disasters or mysterious events, as if to underline the difficulties, even the inability of the tourist to fully understand “the other.” Thanks to the internal focus, depending on the viewpoint of the traveller characters, the reader should better perceive the displacement experienced by these tourists in search of exoticism.  Is it possible to give an implicit discourse on cultural diversity, starting from the representation of attraction for the other? Érotisme interethnique : éthique du voyage chez Houellebecq, Le Clézio et Mauvignier is an essay that looks at how these three authors use interethnic eroticism to represent an attraction among peoples that seems to derive from the cultural mix caused by travel and tourism. From lustful exchanges in the novels La quarantaine of J. M. G. Le Clézio, Lanzarote of Michel Houellebecq and Autour du monde from Laurent Mauvignier, it would be possible to identify an ethical discourse of these authors on the intermingling, but especially on the prioritization of cultural relations between the peoples.
J. M. G. Le Clézio Michel Houellebecq Laurent Mauvignier La quarantaine Lanzarote Autour du monde Érotisme Interethnique Éthique Voyage Eroticism Interethnic ethic travel