BOOK REVIEW TRAVEL AND TELL. NARRATIVE STRATEGIES FOR THE TRAVEL WRITER Author: Juliana González-Rivera From the reader report by: Rafael Falasco Viajar y contarlo is a book about travel literature. Based on a broad literature review, the author creates a synthesis of the genre, the ways of building its discourse, the structural elements, and the problems surrounding writing. She also reflects on the book’s circulation and success as a phenomenon. Approaching the narrative strategies of travel literature with the experience-based chronicle and journalistic text, as these share referential condition with travel literature, it builds bridges between travelers’ accounts and the practice of news and reporting. The book is divided into thirteen chapters, in addition to introduction, bibliography, and a section for notes. The chapters cover: travel as news, traveling chronicles, truths and lies in traveler’s accounts, the traveler as translator, and travel as testimony, among others. The book proposes a systematization of narrative strategies of travel writing and the rhetoric of its discourse, as well as techniques to provide veracity and accuracy, the textual resources used, intertextuality, and the handling of sources. The work has the potential to be included in collections devoted to history, literature, or readers interested in travel and its accounts. In addition to its commercial potential of broad readership for publishers concerned with offering quality and quick reading non-fiction books, its translation also entails potential for university courses in literature, history, and journalism.
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