"When I travel through my room, I rarely follow a straight line: I go from the table towards a picture hanging in a corner; from there, I set out obliquely towards the door; but even though, when I begin, it really is my intention to go there, if I happen to meet my armchair en route, I don't think twice about it, and settle down in it without further ado." Later, proceeding North, he encounters his bed, and in this way he lightheartedly continues his "Voyage". This work is remarkable for its play with the reader's imagination, along the lines of Laurence Sterne, whom Xavier admired. Xavier did not think much of Voyage, but his brother Joseph had it published. Most of his other works are of modest dimensions; these include Le Lépreux de la Cité d'Aoste ("The Leper from Aosta", 1811), a touching humane story in a simple style, involving a dialogue between a leper who reminisces with a soldier about his lost youth and his sequestered life in a tower with a view of the Alps, Les Prisonniers du Caucase ("The Prisoners of the Caucasus", 1825), a powerful sketch of Russian character, La Jeune Sibérienne ("The Young Siberian", 1825), a true story of who left on foot from Ishim in the depth of Siberia to go to Saint Petersburg to ask Tsar Alexander I for the grace of her father, and Expédition Nocturne Autour de ma Chambre ("Night Voyage Around My Room", 1825), a sequel to Voyage Autour de ma Chambre. In 1839, after the publication of a French edition of La Jeune Sibérienne (1825), Maistre went on a long journey to Paris and Savoy. He was surprised to find himself well known in literary circles. Alphonse de Lamartine dedicated a poem to him (Retour, 1826) praising his genius: "the future sons will say ... it is your heart, which through your mellifluous writings you have passed to us". He met Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, who has left some pleasant reminiscences of him. For a time, he lived at Naples, but eventually he returned to St. Petersburg and died there in 1852. Allusions in other works The title of de Maistre's book "Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre" is cited in a verse by Carlos Argentino Daneri, a character in Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Aleph". Voyage autour de ma chambre is mentioned in the second sentence of the