Sad Tropics of Claude Lévi-Strauss, published in 1955, mixes travel souvenirs and meditations. The accounts of its meetings with the Indians of Brazil occupy more half of the text. However, the author takes his distances with the kind of the account of voyage, which the incipit announces in manner enough provocante: “I hate the voyages and the explorers”. It is indeed not a question of painting exoticism or the adventure but of seizing a human reality and of wondering about civilization. As the analysis Georges Bataille: “the innovation of the book is opposed to one ressassement, it meets the need for broader values, more poetic, such as the horror and tenderness on the scale of the history and the universe, tears off us with the poverty of our our streets and our buildings. ”
Tristes Tropics belongs to the first successes of the collection Human Ground (published by Plon), directed by Jean Malaurie
The work includes/understands nine parts:
- end of the voyages
- Roadmaps
- the new World
- ground and the men
- Caduveo
- Bororo
- Nambikwara
- Tupi - Kawahib
- the return
References
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