The Voyage en Orient offers an (often ironic) meditation on the masculine condition in the East, which involves both the narrator's wedding plans and praise for a Lebanese prince who has become a legendary figure—as well as the episodes in which the masculine and the feminine are blurred together. The story acquires its full meaning as a challenge to the way masculinity is lived in the bourgeois West.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques