Archipelago Books
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — May 2008
Autonauts of the cosmoroute, a timeless voyage from Paris to Marseilles.
Cortázar, Julio and Carol Dunlop. Trans. by Anne McLean.
Archipelago Books, ©2007 354 p. $20.00 DC29
978-0-9793330-0-2
Cortázar (1914-1984) grew up near Buenos Aires and was a celebrated novelist and short story writer. Dunlop (1946-1984) was born in Boston, became a Canadian citizen during the Vietnam war, met Cortázar in 1977, and moved to France where she worked as a writer, translator, and photographer. They both died in Paris. Originally published in Spanish in 1983 (Muchnik, D.L., Barcelona), this imaginative and lively travel chronicle, translated into English by Anne McLean, tells of the authors' experiences as they drove their VW van on the freeway from Paris to Marseilles in 33 days — a trip that normally takes about ten hours. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
