Gautier's trip to Greece

This publication shows Gautier''s preference for Greece which represents for him the warmth He had qualities of a painter and his taste was the color and the light Then there is the journey of Gautier His writing shows a classification a linear temporal structure A narrative dimension The narrative unfolds in time and extends its linearity over the entire length of the text Gautier keeps a diary to reproduce his journey There is the announcement of the return and the departure This travelogue is a geographical discourse but also a historical discourse it is the real observed that constitutes the travelogue. It makes descriptions of nature of the landscape to the various islands It makes external descriptions on architecture It was interested in the external aspect to the external aspect of the Greeks in their clothing by comparing them with that of Antiquity.