The volume explores diverse aspects of French-language travel writing. Arranged chronologically by topic, the essays cover the medieval Anglo-Norman story of the Irish traveller Saint Brendan's fantastical visit to hell; the sixteenth-century French expeditions to Florida; the seventeenth-century Dernières découvertes dans l’Amérique septentrionale de M. de la Sale mises au jour par le chevalier Tonti, 1697; the eighteenth-century Histoire générale des voyages by l’abbé Prévost; the eighteenth-century Impressions d' Orient et d'Arabie written in French by the Polish count Waclaw Seweryn Rzewuski; nineteenth-century tales of travel in Algeria by the orientalist painter Eugène Fromentin; early twentieth-century travel narratives by the modernist Blaise Cendrars; the 1936 visit to the Soviet Union by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and André Gide, odyssean thematics in the late twentieth-century work of Nobel prize winner Patrick Modiano; the thematics of nomadism in the twentieth-century writing of Albert Memmi, and the thematics of travel in works by Bernard Ollivier, Rachid Bouchareb, Fatou Diome, Christine Montalbetti, Marie Ndiaye and Emmanuel Lepage.
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Odysseys / Odyssées: Travel Narratives in French / Récits de voyage en français
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Published date: Feb 16, 2017
Language: English
No. of Pages: 244
Publisher: Brill
ISBN: 9789004334687
Dimensions:
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9.251968503" H
Jeanne Garane is Professor at the University of South Carolina, translated Abdourahman Waberi’s Land Without Shadows (2005), edited Discursive Geographies (2005), co-edited Translation in French and Francophone Literature and Film (FLS XXXVI, 2009, and recently translated Daniel Picouly’s The Leopard Boy (2016).
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