Dr Mathilde Poizat-Amar, Lecturer in French in the Department of Modern Languages, has just published a new book on French travel writing entitled L’Eclat du voyage: Blaise Cendrars, Victor Segalen, Albert Londres (Peter Lang, 2017), based upon her PhD thesis undertaken at Kent and at Paris-10.

The monograph examines different interactions between travel and literary writing in the works of three early 20th-century French travel writers: Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), Victor Segalen (1878-1919)and Albert Londres (1884-1932).

By looking at a large range of primary material including novels, essays, poetry, diaries, and journalistic reports this book establishes how these texts, written in the midst of a Modernist boom across Europe, present us with trailblazing ways of thinking and writing about travel.

In doing so, it argues for the necessity of thinking together literature and travel, travel and fragmentation, and at last, literature and fragmentation.

For more details, please see the publisher’s website.