« [C]’est absurde d’être bloqué sur une autoroute » – Das Motiv des Staus in der zeitgenössischen romanischen Literatur
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- Due to an ever-increasing number of automobiles on the roads, automobility fails more and more to fulfil its promise of free individual mobility, leading to traffic density and congestions of unprecedented proportions. However, those conditions seem to possess an aesthetic potential which we seek to analyze in terms of literature. Therefore, we are going to look on three novels from Romance-language areas: Julio Cortázar’s short story La autopista del sur (1966), Carlo Lucarelli’s novel Autosole (1998) and Grégoire Gauchet’s novel Les robinsonsDue to an ever-increasing number of automobiles on the roads, automobility fails more and more to fulfil its promise of free individual mobility, leading to traffic density and congestions of unprecedented proportions. However, those conditions seem to possess an aesthetic potential which we seek to analyze in terms of literature. Therefore, we are going to look on three novels from Romance-language areas: Julio Cortázar’s short story La autopista del sur (1966), Carlo Lucarelli’s novel Autosole (1998) and Grégoire Gauchet’s novel Les robinsons de l’autoroute (2018). First, we will analyze the nature of deceleration/congestion by referring to human geographer Tim Cresswell’s concept of friction. Second, we will examine recurring motifs linked to the deceleration/congestion in all novels before taking a closer look at Gauchet’s novel where the friction not only applies to traffic but also to human relationships. The aim is to look at different literary representations of an everyday experience like traffic congestion and to see how literature deals with such an occurrence.…
Autor(en): | Melanie Schneider |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329807 |
Dokumentart: | Artikel / Aufsatz in einer Zeitschrift |
Institute der Universität: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen |
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: | Deutsch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes / der Zeitschrift (Deutsch): | promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik |
ISSN: | 2364-6705 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
Band / Jahrgang: | 8 |
Seitenangabe: | 165-180 |
Originalveröffentlichung / Quelle: | promptus 8(2022), S. 165-180 |
Allgemeine fachliche Zuordnung (DDC-Klassifikation): | 8 Literatur / 84 Französische und verwandte Literaturen / 840 Literaturen romanischer Sprachen; Französische Literatur |
Freie Schlagwort(e): | car culture; friction; immobility; motorway; traffic congestion |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 27.10.2023 |
Sammlungen: | Zeitschriften (Journals) / promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik / Band 8 / Artikel / articles |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |