Nerval’s presence in Gautier’s Voyage en Égypte

This article shows Nerval’s presence in the Journey to Egypt, an unfinished travel book written by Gautier (1869). The author gives a satirical description of the headdresses worn by the Europeans he travels with – a tribute to the vanished friend who had written a satirical portrait of the English tourist, covered by so much clothing that he became completely separated from the outside word – opposite to Nerval as a narrator, whose voice we hear dialogically in Gautier’s text.