Vanishing ways The Myth of Travel

Under which conditions can one still recount their journeys? And why do so in the first place? These questions are raised again today with renewed urgency. At a time when the world seems bound to disappear, the myth of travel as an experience through which the subject disappears is itself threatened; its structural contradictions flare up. The contemporary travel writers’ formal choices consequently take on not only an aesthetic, but also an ethical dimension.