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In 1952, between 23rd and 28th August, Michèle Bernstein spent time in the French port of Le Havre, Normandy seeking out the places that had inspired Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel, Nausea , or so we learn from some fragments left by Patrick Straram, collected together as Les bouteilles se couchent .  The Sartre novel which inspired Michèle Bernstein was from 1938; it was Sartre's first published novel. Sartre set the story in the port city on the estuary of the river Seine in Normandy where he had been a schoolteacher.  Nausea is written as diary entries, with street-names that should be easy to find for any literary dériviste ; in the quotation from Nausea below, the narrator, Antoine Roquentin has just come out of the library. A bronze statue of Gustave Impetraz stands nearby: Thursday, 11.30 I have worked two hours in the reading-room. I went down to the Cour des Hypotheques to smoke a pipe. A square paved with pinkish bricks. The people of Bouville [Le Havre] are proud of it becau

Literary Geographies of Brittany and Paris   Satori in Paris is Jack Kerouac’s account of his fieldwork research in Brittany and Paris.   The book continues to fascinate publishers, so much so that Penguin have recently reissued an edition in their Modern Classics series.   It continues, too, to inspire travel writers, travel bloggers and carnettistes thanks to its autobiographical approach coupled with detailed observation of the phenomenology of the writer’s experiences.   For me, in my search for French, Kerouac’s carnet de voyage delights because it is gently laced with French words like tiny sips of strong black coffee through a Barthesian foam of milky phonemes.   But later on, a neurosis forms in the text and it begins to desire me, as I attend to it and wait for Satori.  Please Follow. You will need to copy our url address first, which is travelwritersonline.blogspot.com

Detective Chief Inspector Maigret  If, like me, you like Rowan Atkinson in the role of the French Detective Chief Inspector or DCI Maigret you will enjoy the TV drama episode, called: Maigret's Dead Man , often repeated in the US and UK.  If you can’t wait for the next showing, then read the new Penguin translation that came out in March 2016 or at least take a free sneek preview on Google Play Books here:  It is a perfect story for movie-induced tourism fans and for literary tourism fans alike because of the precision of the opening scene in Paris looking across the river Seine.  Maigret is aloft in his office at number 36, Quai des Orfèvres. On the telephone, a man is speaking, he says he is not far from the police headquarters of the Police Judiciaire; the mysterious caller explains his location in the telephone booth of a bar:  - Just across from your office. A minute ago I could see your window. Quai des Grands-Augustins. There’s a small bar, you’ll know it, it’s called Aux Ca

A Case Study on Nantes This paper proposes new practices in place-making for writers of narrative non-fiction and for destination organisations that commission content authors.  Full-text now available on Toureme Substack at  https://open.substack.com/pub/toureme/p/literary-geographies-for-regenerative-073?r=21sgn4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true   Place Graslin, Nantes. Photo: C. Mansfield 14:38 Thurs 6 April 2017 Making a Literary Geography Rather than undertake literary criticism on the works that present the branded destination, in this case study Nantes, a process of seeking out the potential catalysts for toureme moments (Mansfield 2015) offers the researcher a more economical and focussed approach to finding locations that have narrative value for the travel writer and blogger. [...]  _______________________________________________________________ <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.world/@charlesmansfield">Mastodon&l

Retour au pays natal - episode 1 Clarisse Chicot Feindouno, Travel Writers Online Summer School I woke up excited. I had hardly slept because I was thinking about the journey ahead. I had packed everything carefully two days before so I wouldn’t forget a thing. I had travelled to France a week ago to avoid rushing and panicking. The day arrived quickly, I was impatient and worried. What were things like after 11 years?  Probably different now, with new buildings everywhere. I would soon find out. We made our way to the airport. People’s driving skills left much to be desired. I watched the buildings as we drove by and all of the advertisement panels. 'Souriez, filmez, partagez' with SFR, the new Xiaomi 10, 5G phone for just 1 euro, hmmm, interesting.  I suddenly remembered, I forgot to check if my Sky network would work once I got there!  We pulled into the airport and I registered the luggage. I sat in this restaurant for my last coffee. I said goodbye to my husband. The kids

Pennywort growing in terrace wall, Newquay, Cornwall Step 3. After you have typed-in and posted your second blog entry from your fieldwork, please return to your journaling and document just two of your key thoughts on this process of inquiry. In particular, can you now count the windows or whatever was the quantitative question that you set yourself back in Step 1? We are at the stage now of activating deliberate recall and telling, to see how your memory generates narrative from recent experience, from notes, from your imaginary, and, you are allowed to consult other sources now to verify any points, eg dates, spellings, plant identification sites.  Third and final blog post in this exercise Now, for your third and final blog post, I want you to move into the past tense to tell your reader what you did. How you went, how you found the exact spot in the field. How you moved. Be strict with your tenses, check them, put them back into the past when they try to creep into the present.