Tendiendo puentescrónicas desde el litoral mediterráneo
- 1 GIECO - Instituto Franklin - UAH
- Carlota Vicens-Pujol (coord.)
- Cristina Solé Castells (coord.)
- Lídia Anoll Vendrell (coord.)
- María Gracia Vila Mengual (coord.)
Publisher: Universidad de las Islas Baleares = Universitat de les Illes Balears
ISBN: 9788483843857
Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 225-236
Congress: Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española. Coloquio (26. 2017. null)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
From Cendrars to Bouvier, via Cingria, Schwarzenbach, and Maillart, travel literature in French-speaking Switzerland is very rich. The latest author to join this trend is Blaise Hofmann, a French-speaking Swiss writer who received the Nicolas Bouvier Prize at the Etonnants Voyageurs festival in Saint-Malo in 2008 for his book, Estive. Here, we discover Notre Mer, born during a trip around the Mediterranean in 2008: a six-month voyage to go through three thousand years of history. Notre Mer also refers to this matriarchal place from which we all come from, the cradle of the West, a sea that also embodies the most intense fears and hopes. Through these stories, the author presents the most popular subjects of this Europe transformed into an intransigent force, an increasingly stubborn Islam, or the Balkanization of its shores, but it also leaves an open space to talk about the exoticism of the Other.