Table of Contents:
  • City and Travel. Walking the (Un)Known City
  • 1. Reading the City
  • 2. On Rivers and Maps. Iberian Approaches to Comparatism
  • 3. Borders in the City: Rewriting Walls
  • 4. "Decrèpita i teatral"? On Literary Explorations of Barcelona
  • 5. The Lights and Names of Paris: Llorenç Villalonga's Bearn
  • 6. Exile in the City: Mercè Rodoreda's La plaça del diamant
  • 7. Literary Construction: The Case of Eduardo Mendoza
  • 8 In Transit: Exploring Travelogues
  • 9. Back from the USSR. Travelers in the Land of the Soviets
  • 10. Lightweight Luggage: Travel and Exile
  • 11. Threshold to Nowhere? Travelogues to Non-places
  • Bibliography.