(en) ABSTRACT – The narrator’s Journey to the Orient ends his trip in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, in front of which he feels like he is standing before a theater. The Arabian Nights serve as a key to access the backstage of the scene : the text is used to defamiliarize the reader and help him pierce the plain surface that the city opposes to the traveler’s gaze. Hence, it reveals the magic of a secret Constantinople and allows Nerval ’s mythology to diffuse itself in the structure of the travelogue.
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