Studie zum Literaturnobelpreistrager The study discusses J M G Le Clezio s 1940 travel writings from the period 1985 1995 Le chercheur d or Voyage a Rodrigues La quarantaine as a project geared to poetological self enactment Initiatory structure and ecriture are analogous processes that bring the writing self to the limits of awareness and language Taking its methodological bearings from the literary theories of C G Jung and Gaston Bachelard and drawing upon dream discourses from Romanticism and Surrealism the analysis of figures and imagery reveals that doppelganger and elemental natural spaces are poetic projections of the origin of the text