Congratulations to Annie Ernaux today, Nobel laureate 2022 for Literature. My monograph examines the writing practices of three contemporary French writers working in the closing decades of the twentieth century in Paris. The aim is to discover if travel writing, a practice chosen by all three, belongs to a specific discourse which suits the writing practice of the authors in their treatment of a particular subject. Within this the study attempts to discover defining aspects of what may be called the genre of travel writing, by finding parallels in the work of all three writers and then by examining the uses of these aspects or themes to understand what they offer the writer as a means of expression. One work in particular is studied in detail as the key text for this research, this is the second travel journal by Annie Ernaux (2000) La Vie extérieure. Read more about her travel writing here on ResearchGate at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267331805_Traversing_Paris_French_
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