MEMBER BLOG TAG: voyage and voyeur
| Monday, April 30, 2007 10:17AM | | | | The Art of Travel Writing | Tags: Voyage and Voyeur, de Botton, Trojanow, Jian
| | | | My final panel! But what a great way to end the festival. In a discussion titled Voyage and Voyeur: Travel and Travel Writing, authors Alain de Botton (England), Ma Jian (China), and Ilja Trojanow (Bulgaria/Germany/South Africa) brilliantly deconstructed the notion of travel.
Among the highlights:
From Trojanow: That the label “travel writer” is a troubled one with the rather specious connotation of a white male from the West traveling somewhere exotic for a week, looking out his hotel window, and then returning home to report on what he’s seen and thereby captured the Other. Two examples of this kind of work he brought up were Paul Thoreaux and Gunter Grass, whose travel book on India featured “shit” over six hundred times. ... | | | | | |
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