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E-book Interwar Itineraries : Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing
              Stationed in Alsace in 1939 and 1940, during the so-called phony war [drôle de  guerre]  that  preceded  Nazi  Germany’s  invasion  of  France,  Sartre  con-templates the structure of adventurous and gritty travel, pitting it against the seemingly mundane practice of tourism, but ultimately locating an in-delible link between the two. As he describes it, even his attempts to break through the rigid strictures and plots of tourism by traveling off the beaten path and transgressing the cultural norms of his era were destined to fail because the impulse that guided them was already inherent to the practice of tourism. There is no real difference between tourist and traveler on the existential level; his transgression was merely convention. Sartre’s belated response  to  the  cliché  is  already  a  cliché.  Yet,  in  his  careful  self-analysis,  he  identifies  the  logic  that  he  is  now  wise  to,  the  logic  that  assigns  value  to  travel  abroad  when  it  provides  a  “true”  and  “profound”  experience  of  self, other, and place. As he casts it in the epiphanic passage, his attempts to  find  fresh  adventures  and  discover  unseen  vistas  were  themselves  the  result  of  a  problematic  equation  between  veritableness  and  genuineness  on the one hand, and purity and aesthetic recompense on the other. In the terms of this book, Sartre had been a quester for authenticity.
            
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