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How can readers of the colonial era enter the French colonial empire through literature? Under the Third Republic, this question matters for political and ideological reasons. This article aims to examine, through three particular case studies, how the first lines of a text engage the experience of an exotic reading differently. Comparing the first lines of a book or of magazines makes it possible to highlight variations in the colonial adventure, and in its modernity, through the speed of the narrative: a travel narrative, a Jules Verne adventure novel, a report by Albert Londres, all possess similarities which shed light on the “colonial adventure.” Depending on whether the travel narratives were published in newspapers or in books, the speed of reading is not the same, the medium playing a significant role in the perception of the adventure itself.
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The unrealized Appunti per un poema sul Terzo Mondo (Notes Towards a Poem for the Third World, 1968) was part of Pasolini's experimental documentary film practice of “notes” (appunti), a series of short- and medium-length features mixing both fiction and non-fiction elements. Very much in line with the work of experimental filmmakers of his time, the “notes” genre places itself at the intersection of various cinematic forms: reflexive ethnographic documentary, experimental visual travelogue and the essay film. In Pasolini, travelling to the Third World stands for exploring the political project of the post-Bandung non-aligned movement as well as the political activist's aspiration to find in Third World struggles a space of radical political change, a revolution da farsi. The essayistic, open form on Pasolini's “notes” aims precisely at reproducing in its own very hybrid status the openness of the revolutionary movement.