Nerval left for the Orient in 1842. He stayed in Cairo where he cohabited with a slave he had bought and, searching for a soul sister, went on to Beirut and the mountains. The impressions and observations provoked by these settings led him to think about alterity in terms above and beyond the exotic.
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