For Lucie Azema, exploring the world, meeting others, was obvious. Her studies had just begun, she was already exploring the Middle East on her own, and for ten years this young journalist has lived and worked in Lebanon, India and Iran, and traveled to many countries. For a passion for travel but also to free herself from the chains of the female condition, since one day her sex jumped in her face. “As a child, I devoured Jules Verne or Jack London, and later all the great classics, to become a “real” traveler. But when I read Jack Kerouac’s La Route, I was struck by his way of talking about women. He doesn’t give them a name, it’s just “a sassy hot chick” or “a hot handsome guy”! These great books, signed only by men, were not only evocative and inspiring texts, but also conveyed a singularly sexist and misogynistic worldview and slammed the door in his face.
“Since” the Iliad “and” the Odyssey “, the journey is part of a rite of separation, begun
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