TY - CHAP

T1 - Vom Schreiben und Lesen der Stadt

T2 - LiteraTouristische Erkundigungen des Urbanen

AU - Saretzki, Anja

PY - 2015/1

Y1 - 2015/1

N2 - Literature has long served as an inducement to travel. The merging of real qualities and tourists’ imagination gives a special meaning to literary places, indeed often leading a romantic re-invention of sites. Barcelona is one of those places with a literary tradition and reputation that have inspired many writers. In turn, their urban narratives have contributed to a kind of literary construction of Barcelona that affects how the city is perceived. Widely read urban narratives like Ruiz Zafón’s "The Shadow of the Wind" serve as an invitation for travellers to meet the city through the writer’s eyes, even moti-vating Barcelona’s tourism services to develop "Shadow of the Wind" guided walking tours. The tours can be regarded as an attempt to densify a romanticized imagination of a magical Barcelona in today’s cityscape and to produce a specific text of the city. This kind of "writing the city" determines a hegemonic kind of "reading the city" by the tourist. This chapter analyses tourists’ spatial practices with the help of Lefebvre’s and de Certeau’s theories of the production of space, to show how tourists are involved in the literary construction of Barcelona as a "lieu d’imagination".

AB - Literature has long served as an inducement to travel. The merging of real qualities and tourists’ imagination gives a special meaning to literary places, indeed often leading a romantic re-invention of sites. Barcelona is one of those places with a literary tradition and reputation that have inspired many writers. In turn, their urban narratives have contributed to a kind of literary construction of Barcelona that affects how the city is perceived. Widely read urban narratives like Ruiz Zafón’s "The Shadow of the Wind" serve as an invitation for travellers to meet the city through the writer’s eyes, even moti-vating Barcelona’s tourism services to develop "Shadow of the Wind" guided walking tours. The tours can be regarded as an attempt to densify a romanticized imagination of a magical Barcelona in today’s cityscape and to produce a specific text of the city. This kind of "writing the city" determines a hegemonic kind of "reading the city" by the tourist. This chapter analyses tourists’ spatial practices with the help of Lefebvre’s and de Certeau’s theories of the production of space, to show how tourists are involved in the literary construction of Barcelona as a "lieu d’imagination".

KW - Tourismuswissenschaften

KW - Literaturtourismus

KW - Raumproduktion

KW - Lefebvre

KW - de Certeau

M3 - Aufsätze in Sammelwerken

SN - 978-3-7386-0507-5

SP - 259

EP - 279

BT - Tourismus und mobile Freizeit

A2 - Egger, Roman

A2 - Luger, Kurt

PB - Books on Demand GmbH

CY - Norderstedt

ER -