Date of Award
5-9-2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Modern & Classical Languages
First Advisor
William J. Nichols, PhD
Second Advisor
Elena del Río Parra, PhD
Abstract
This study analyzes the construction of a very specific Parisian urban space through intertextuality and self-fiction in the novel Never Any End To Paris (2003), by Spanish author Enrique Vila-Matas. Specifically, it explores a particular representation of a literary space and its narrative significance according to the theories of Michel de Certeau on spatial stories, and Frederic Jameson on cognitive mapping. It is concluded that Vila-Matas’s urban space in this novel is inextricably and fundamentally built upon other spaces from his personal literary canon. It also explores the narrator’s performative spatial itinerary to find his own voice, which represents both the narrator’s coming of age as an artist, and the author’s poetic for the novel.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/7009813
Recommended Citation
Rossell Marsal, Carmen, "Recorridos performativos y vectores intertextuales. La representación del espacio literario en París no se acaba nunca, de Enrique Vila-Matas." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2015.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/7009813