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What Reading Does to Laperouse’s journey to Kamtchatka (1787)

This article tries to propose a new analyse of the problem of intertextuality in travel literature, examining a specific passage of Lapérouse’s “Voyage”: the stopover in Kamchatka. Literally haunted by Cook, Lapérouse sometimes seems to confuse real space with the space of the story, making a strange attempt to “re-stage” the characters his predecessor had met. We propose here a re-reading of this episode in the light of the "triple mimesis" system developed by Paul Ricoeur. We’ll try to measure the effect of the travel narrative on reality. Lapérouse, re-writing Cook, performs a literary as well as a political gesture.