Victor Segalen, l’écrivain incertain

"This contribution examines the dual reception of Victor Segalen. Within Segalenian critics, there is a divergence, even a tension, which has been little studied. This dual reception includes scholars who present Segalen with a comprehensive approach to otherness, with clear ideological positions in his questioning of Christianity and deconstruction of colonial myths. Other critics take the opposite approach, relativizing the idea of the writer as open to intercultural exchange and hostile to the phenomenon of colonization. In fact, many critics have shown that Segalenian critics have consistently misinterpreted the traveler as a defender of other cu."