Flaubert was the author of, among other works, the novels 'Madame Bovary' and 'Salammbô', Roussel of 'Impressions d'Afrique' and 'Locus Solus'. Fagin has used these two literary figures to make a film as multi-layered and exotic. The film claims that Roussel apparently found himself on the 'bachelor side' of the great window-pane', a reference to 'La Mariée mise á nu par ses célibataires, même'. This magnum opus by Marcel Duchamp symbolises 'the rupture of the hymen', and Duchamp himself said that Roussel was responsible for its genesis. Michel Foucault called Roussel's texts 'language machines', and not only because of the way they processed language, but also because they generated it. Fagin's 'Voyage' keeps close to this 'translating' working method, but adopts an idiom all its own. The excellent result oflers a 'transparant' read.