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Looking at the experience of travel before tourism became an industry, Loselle (French, U. of California-Los Angeles) examines the literary representation of tourism in the work of such writers as Blaise Cendrars, Paul Morand, and Louis-Ferdinand CTline. She considers the selection of literary themes, and reveals how many writers travel to previously marked textual sites and uncover connections between tourism and war. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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In History's Double, Andrea Loselle looks at the relation between tourism and French literature, drawing a distinction between the tourist industry and the "true" experience of travel. Examining the work of such notable writers as Blaise Cendrars, Paul Morand, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Loselle discusses the literary representation of tourism throughout the course of the twentieth century. Themes such as violence, fascism, speed, stereotypes, the symbolic value of amusement parks, the metaphor of the journey, and historical representation are considered and employed as a means of comparing and contrasting French writers
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