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C. de Toledo, Visiter le Flurkistan. Ou Les illusions de la littérature monde
Literary Theory, Linguistics and Stylistics

Camille de Toledo, Visiter le Flurkistan. Ou Les illusions de la littérature monde, Paris, PUF, coll. "Travaux pratiques", 22/10/2008, 111 p.

ISBN : 978-2-13-057040-0
12.00 €

Publisher's overview:

"The dust of the roads, the thrill of the outdoors, the crossed gazes of strangers".
How sweet those words sound. Were we not troubled by suspicion, how easily we would let ourselves be taken in. We would follow them, these writer-travelers. We would set off with them. We would taste the dust, we might even get down on all fours to lap it up. But elsewhere no longer exists. This must be announced to the signatories, though I cannot say whether this is good news or bad. Visiter le Flurkistan is a critique of the "Manifesto of the 44 writers for a world-literature", an inquiry into the state of reality in an age of generalized fiction, and the sketch of a stratified writing: "Not with one's feet in the dust, but in the very factory of that dust".

Camille de Toledo is a writer and filmmaker.
He is the author of Archimondain Jolipunk (Calmann-Lévy, 2002), L'inversion de Hieronymus Bosch (Verticales, 2005), and Vies et mort d'un terroriste américain (Verticales, 2007). He has also published, under the pseudonym Oscar Philipsen and alongside Keren Ann, Rêves (La Martinière, 2004).

Contents:

The Offensive of the Giants
Dust
Revolution
Danube
Pact
English
Excess
Strata
Elsewhere
Flurkistan
Pantheon

The debates surrounding contemporary global literature often intersect with broader discussions about cultural geography, artistic mobility, and the commodification of geographic displacement. Camille de Toledo is a writer and filmmaker. He is the author of Archimondain Jolipunk, L'inversion de Hieronymus Bosch, and Vies et mort d'un terroriste américain. He has also published, under the pseudonym Oscar Philipsen and alongside Keren Ann, Rêves.

Readers interested in contemporary literary criticism, French essays on global publishing trends, and debates surrounding the manifesto genre may find this volume relevant. Visiter le Flurkistan is a critique of the Manifesto of the 44 writers for a world-literature, an inquiry into the state of reality in an age of generalized fiction, and the sketch of a stratified writing.