Letterarietà del viaggio: percorsi italiani contemporanei
Author(s)
Date Issued
2019
Type
article
Volume
xviii
Start Page
85
End Page
95
ISSN
1721-3673
Journal
Abstract
The Literariness of Travel : Contemporary Italian Paths · Through analysing the relationship
between ‘real’ travel and travel writing in some contemporary Italian authors – mainly
Ennio Flaiano and the collective Wu Ming – this article reflects on the modifications of this
relationship and on the definition of ‘travel literature’ as a literary genre tout court, which is
not based on a close and unidirectional direct dependence on the real journey. Travel writing
shows to be a much larger corpus, which influences and is influenced by other dynamic writings
and by other literary genres. It goes beyond the strictly travel-related dimension of the
odeporic literature and is generated in the literary modalities employed by the travellers when
they turn into writers.