Antonio Muñoz Molina, un Robinson en Manhattan

In the literature of travel to foreign cities, writers’ travel diaries have always been a source of subjective witness and served as the basis for hybrid texts falling between the personal diary, essays and journalism. Ventanas de Manhattan by Antonio Muñoz Molina provides a particularly significant...

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Main Author: Jean-Pierre Castellani
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2006-10-01
Series:Revista de Filología Románica
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RFRM/article/view/10979
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description In the literature of travel to foreign cities, writers’ travel diaries have always been a source of subjective witness and served as the basis for hybrid texts falling between the personal diary, essays and journalism. Ventanas de Manhattan by Antonio Muñoz Molina provides a particularly significant example of this kind of litterature, halfway between document and fiction. From the chronicles of his Robinson urbano in Grenada to this tale of a visit to New York, Muñoz Molina has always been fascinated by the discovery of a new territory, like Robinson on his island, developing it into a veritable poetics of the city. Impressionistic flashes running through the most mysterious corners of the great city and chaotic encyclopedia of the city.
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Antonio Muñoz Molina, un Robinson en Manhattan
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Robinson Crusoe
Fiction
Journalism
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New York
Robinson Crusoe
Fiction
Journalism
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