"Covering a wide range of topics and texts, ""Invention of Space"" explores ways in which space has been represented and recreated during the twentieth century in Spanish and Catalan literature. "
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- City and Travel. Walking the (Un)Known City
- 1. Reading the City
- Theories on the City
- City-Book
- The City as Seen from Above (and from Outside)
- Inner Experiences of the City
- 2. On Rivers and Maps. Iberian Approaches to Comparatism
- Drawing Rivers
- Reading Maps
- Appendix
- 3. Borders in the City: Rewriting Walls
- Borders and the City
- Cross and Circle
- Heterotopies: Cemetery, Brothel, Rastro
- 4. “Decrèpita i teatral”? On Literary Explorations of Barcelona
- Walking the City
- A Critical View
- 5. The Lights and Names of Paris: Llorenç Villalonga’s BEARN
- Reading and Writing Issues
- Use of Space in Bearn
- Paris, a Mythical City
- Two Visits to Paris and Two Operas
- Paris, the “lumières,” Bearn
- 6. Exile in the City: Mercè Rodoreda’s LA PLAÇA DEL DIAMANT
- Allegory and City
- Liberation from Space
- 7. Literary Construction: The Case of Eduardo Mendoza
- A Trilogy of Urban Novels
- Pastiche and Parody
- Contemplation of the City
- 8 In Transit: Exploring Travelogues
- Travel and Travelogues
- Travelers
- Typologies
- 9. Back from the USSR. Travelers in the Land of the Soviets
- 10. Lightweight Luggage: Travel and Exile
- Away from Home
- Living in the Margins
- 11. Threshold to Nowhere? Travelogues to Non-places
- Non-Places and the Infra-ordinary
- Travelogues of Non-Places
- A Mind of their Own
- Bibliography
- Index
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