The chapter aims to observe some of the forms taken by displacement in a literature that refers to an anxious and disquiet relationship with the world. We present the exemplary case of the French academic novelist of Chinese origin François Cheng. We also look at a writer who calls himself a “frontiersman,” such as Claudio Magris, because his favorite places are metonymic of spaces that are foreign to each other. Finally, we consider the discomfort of disquiet on the basis of two narratives. On the one hand, we examine some aspects of Mathias Énard's novel Boussole, whose action, set in the closed space of a Viennese flat, hosts a whole kaleidoscope of oriental horizons at the same time as the Library of Babel invites itself into the bedroom of an insomniac. Then we take a closer look at Ronald Bonan's story Ambulances, set in Provence, between Nice, Marseille, the Sainte-Victoire mountain and the Mont Ventoux.