Travellers' Visions - French Literary Encounters with Japan, 1887-2004

Acknowledgements vi Introduction: Modes of Travel, Modes of Seeing 1(14) Travels through Objects: Marcel Proust, Edmond de Goncourt, Pierre Loti 15(39) Journalists and Barbarians: Anatole France, Claude Farrere, Henri Michaux 54(36) Walking towards Japan: Paul Claudel's co-naissance of the East 90(38) Postwar Travellers and Photographic Writing: Roland Barthes, Michel Butor, Gerard Mace 128(41) Conclusion: Textual Worlds 169(6) Notes 175(20) Bibliography 195(7) Index 202