TRAVELLING AS A FOREIGNER
TRAVELLING AS A FOREIGNER

Summary/Abstract: This article is a reading focused on several aspects of the Baroque mosaic of "artistic, historical and critical memoirs" of Nicolae Filimon, reflected in Excursions to Meridional Germany. Started on the road with the intention of a precise cultural practice, the writer experienced, like his predecessors, the clash between civilizations. The author records aspects of the way of life (traditions, morals), sketches portraits, informs about places, except that his writing does not lack comments, including comparative ones, that critically highlight the differences between civilizations, morals and mentalities between the Western world and the world left at the gates of the East. There is highlighted what the traveler-writer believes to be the specific way of foreigners to manifest as a compact, unitary category through behaviors that fall within the sphere of stereotypes. During the process of approaching Western Europe, in parallel with the discovery of national identity, the months spent in the West gave him, in political, social, economic, moral and cultural terms, completely instructive confrontations with what the Other represents.

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