Maps and Territories

*Maps and Territories is as much a literary study as an essay of cultural studies, places cutting-edge 21st-century French fiction into dialogue with a range of today's most influential theorists of postmodernity and globalization
*addresses questions that are at the very heart of contemporary debates about our relationship to space and places in a world where borders and distance are being redefined by the forces of globalization
*uncovers previously unseen affinities amongst - and offers exciting new perspectives on - a diverse set of contemporary French authors: namely, Michel Houellebecq, Chloé Delaume, Lydie Salvayre, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Virginie Despentes, Philippe Vasset, Jean Rolin, and Marie Darrieussecq
*uncovers previously unseen affinities amongst - and offers exciting new perspectives on - a range of today's most influential theorists of postmodernity and globalization, including Paul Virilio, Marc Augé, Peter Sloterdijk, Bruno Latour, Fredric Jameson, Edward Casey, David Harvey, and Ursula K. Heise

* Harti si teritorii este la fel de mult un studiu literar ca un eseu de studii culturale, plaseaza fictiunea franceza de ultima ora in secolul XXI in dialog cu o serie de teoreticieni cei mai influenti ai postmodernitatii si globalizarii de astazi * abordeaza intrebari care se afla chiar in centrul dezbateri contemporane despre relatia noastra cu spatiul si locurile intr-o lume in care frontierele si distanta sunt redefinite de fortele globalizarii * descopera afinitati nevazute anterior printre - si ofera noi perspective interesante asupra - unui set divers de autori francezi contemporani: si anume, Michel Houellebecq , Chloé Delaume, Lydie Salvayre, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Virginie Despentes, Philippe Vasset, Jean Rolin si Marie Darrieussecq * descopera afinitati nevazute anterior printre - si ofera noi perspective interesante asupra - unei game de teoreticieni cei mai influenti ai postmodernitatii si globalizarii, printre care Paul Virilio, Marc Augé, Peter Sloterdijk, Bruno Latour, Fredric Jameson, Edward Casey, Davi d Harvey si Ursula K.