Abstract
Lery-Strauss: Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to Land of Brazil and Claude Levi-Strauss's Tristes Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to Land of Brazil (1578), a work that Claude Levi-Strauss described as the ethnologist's breviary, surfaces as a palimpsest in modern ethnologist's own book Tristes Tropiques. From his reading of a Huguenot who sought exile in Brazil from European wars of religion, Levi- Strauss retains more than a model destiny, as he adopts nostalgic tone of his predecessor concerning both origin and end of human history. The melancholy of Tristes Tropiques is already that of History of a Voyage. It is true that question of writing itself divides these two authors. Where Lery sees a benediction, Levi-Strauss sees means of alienation and exploitation. Nevertheless, their respective experiences share, before and after colonialist era and over a span of four centuries, a retrospective look at a world lost forever.
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