Le Voyage de Céline Évariste’a Parny, czyli daremność podróży

Évariste Parny, a forgotten yet influential eighteenth-century poet, was born on the Isle of Bourbon, then was sent to be educated in France. As an adult, he has acquired some experience of cultural differences from travels back and forth to Bourbon, to Brazil and India. Although Parny travelled a lot, but either distant lands or home island never took the sheen of a paradise in his works. It seems that Parny had no deep interest for different lands and cultures. The Voyage of Celine, one of his less known works, takes the eponyme heroine to many countries in Americas, Africa and Asia, but finally it appears that staying in France is the most valuable resolution.