LE VOYAGE COMME PRÉTEXTE. L’ECRITURE VIATIQUE DANS UN ALLER SIMPLE DE DIDIER VAN CAUWELAERT: L’ECRITURE VIATIQUE DANS UN ALLER SIMPLE DE DIDIER VAN CAUWELAERT

Didier van Cauwelaert’s fictional travel writing is a pretext for poietics, rather than a metaphor for literature. This article focuses on his novel Un aller simple to show how, by employing intertextuality, metalanguage, and mise en ab me, the author succeeds in fictionalizing the very mechanism of writing. Moreover, this article shows how parody and diversion deconstruct the classic travelogue, revealing that all literature is fiction.