Writing Travel

Writing Travel investigates the ways in which Roberto Bolaño and Juan José Saer engage with travel and space in their work. It enquires into the politics of representation and the cultural and ideological implications at stake in «writing travel» and focusses on the thematic and formal representation of travel and space in their literature.

Writing Travel investigates the ways in which two major Latin American authors, Roberto Bolaño and Juan José Saer, engage with travel and space in their literary work. Travel and space are structures of representation within which cultural traditions are interrogated, reassessed and reformulated and therefore fundamental to the understanding of the critical fabric of the texts themselves. The book enquires into the politics of representation in Bolaño's and Saer's work and the cultural and ideological implications at stake in «writing travel». Writing Travel comprises the first scholarly study of the work of Roberto Bolaño and Juan José Saer, with a focus on the thematic and formal representation of travel and space in their literature. It is an important contribution to the existing knowledge on the novels of the two authors, examining key and understudied aspects of their work.

Autorentext

Dr Guadalupe Gerardi is a Lecturer in Hispanic American Literature at the University of Oxford.

Klappentext

Writing Travel investigates the ways in which two major Latin American authors, Roberto Bolaño and Juan José Saer, engage with travel and space in their literary work. Travel and space are structures of representation within which cultural traditions are interrogated, reassessed and reformulated and therefore fundamental to the understanding of the critical fabric of the texts themselves. The book enquires into the politics of representation in Bolañös and Saer s work and the cultural and ideological implications at stake in «writing travel». Writing Travel comprises the first scholarly study of the work of Roberto Bolaño and Juan José Saer, with a focus on the thematic and formal representation of travel and space in their literature. It is an important contribution to the existing knowledge on the novels of the two authors, examining key and understudied aspects of their work.

Inhalt

CONTENTS: Desert Landscapes: A Travelling Dialogue with the Nation in Juan José Saer's Las nubes - Stray Journeys: Travel in Roberto Bolano's Los detectives salvajes - Juan José Saer's El entenado and the Failures of the Conquest - Hidden in a Desert Cave: Reading and Disclosure in Roberto Bolano's 2666 - The Event of Literature: A Reading of the Desert and Migration in Juan José Saer's La ocasión.