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Travel literature, like other literary productions, draws from both real and imaginary experiences in order to develop a narrative representative of the author’s significant events, events that are grafted on aesthetics and culture at work as inspirations flow. It seems appropriate for us to study Amélie Nothomb’s travel account, La biographie de la faim, which seems to articulate not only memories and events of the past, but also literary reminiscences that are part of his act of creation. The narrative in this perspective sets in motion the literary memory and considers the earlier texts as a matrix of creation. The text maintains a dialogue with literary memory and exploits what we might call literary reminiscences. This process of creation thus collides with the notion of intertextuality in that literary reminiscences -and hence reading stereotypes and reader experience - enter into aesthetic dialogue in more than one title. Starting from the premise that the textual relations maintained constitute the passage from reminiscences to meaning, we will show the extent to which Amelie Nothomb’s novel is nourished by the experiences of the author and the reader. The starting point will be a terminological precision of intertextuality and its relation to meaning. Then comes the presentation of Amélie Nothomb’s novel La biographie de la faim before highlighting the dialogues that the latter maintains with other texts.

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