Latent Prince
John Sturrock, 22 March 2001
Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity: Journeys between Cultures
by Charles Forsdick.
Oxford, 242 pp., £40, November 2000,0 19 816014 3 Show More
by Charles Forsdick.
Oxford, 242 pp., £40, November 2000,
“... the averagely hopeful traveller will be looking for: the everlastingly incomprehensible has the ring of a turn-off, not of an attraction. Segalen may have here had in mind only the initial shock of the exotic, however: that first sense of alienation for which the French have just the right word, dépaysement. For all his medical education, once he began to ... ”