Elf colorful literary stages through the Mediterranean. Light and warmth, colors and scents, East and West – the Mediterranean, where a fantastic cultural diversity has developed over centuries, is a place of longing for many people. A literary journey, dreamed, experienced, and narrated by French and Francophone authors, takes the reader from France through Greece, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco back to the starting point. With texts by Guy de Maupassant (France), Jean Moréas (Greece), Salwa Al Neimi (Syria), Marie Seurat (Syria), Geores Schehadé (Lebanon), Shlomo Elbaz (Israel), Elias Sanbar (Palestine), Gustave Flaubert (France), Edmond Jabès (Egypt), Albert Cossery (Egypt), Albert Memmi (Tunisia), Kateb Yacine (Algeria), Assia Djebar (Algeria), Driss Chrai.