TY - BOOK ID - 79361865 TI - Odysseys : travel narratives in French PY - 2017 SN - 9789004334687 9789004334724 9004334726 9004334688 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Thematology KW - French literature KW - Travelers' writings, French KW - French literature. KW - Travelers' writings, French. KW - French travelers' writings KW - History and criticism. KW - French-speaking countries. KW - Francophone countries UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79361865 AB - The volume explores diverse aspects of French-language travel writing. Arranged chronologically by topic, the essays cover the medieval Anglo-Norman story of the Irish traveller Saint Brendan's fantastical visit to hell; the sixteenth-century French expeditions to Florida; the seventeenth-century Dernières découvertes dans l’Amérique septentrionale de M. de la Sale mises au jour par le chevalier Tonti, 1697 ; the eighteenth-century Histoire générale des voyages by l’abbé Prévost; the eighteenth-century Impressions d' Orient et d'Arabie written in French by the Polish count Waclaw Seweryn Rzewuski; nineteenth-century tales of travel in Algeria by the orientalist painter Eugène Fromentin; early twentieth-century travel narratives by the modernist Blaise Cendrars; the 1936 visit to the Soviet Union by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and André Gide, odyssean thematics in the late twentieth-century work of Nobel prize winner Patrick Modiano; the thematics of nomadism in the twentieth-century writing of Albert Memmi, and the thematics of travel in works by Bernard Ollivier, Rachid Bouchareb, Fatou Diome, Christine Montalbetti, Marie Ndiaye and Emmanuel Lepage. ER -