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• W2927290277 abstract "NOSTALGIA AND THE TRAVEL WRITER AS LAST SURVIVOR SHAWN MALLEY University o f British Columbia I n The Mind of the Traveler: From Gilgamesh to Global Tourism, Eric Leed argues that travel is such a “common, frequent, everyday occurrence” (1) that it is a universal “source of reference, a ground of symbols and metaphors, a resource of signification” (4). The “commonality and familiar­ ity of travel,” he suggests, “may . . . be seen in the fact that travel is the most common source of metaphors used to explicate transformations and transitions of all sorts” (3). Michel Butor, for example, observes that travel is a prominent metaphor of temporal mutability: “we need merely apply time to space (travel is an illustration of this) to arrive at that traditional, and inexhaustible, metaphor of the individual life, or even all of history, as a journey from birth to death” (4). While the “journey of life” is a timehonoured metaphor, travel can also have regressive connotations. For many travel writers, the outward voyage occasions a backward journey in search of roots or origins. Indeed, the journey into the past is an eminent trope in the literature of travel. Thus, a decidedly nostalgic spirit pervades much travel writing. David Daiches’s observation that we “were born nostalgic,” that we long for “some­ thing else, something other, something before” (11), while certainly debat­ able, nonetheless identifies an impulse that is characteristic of many imag­ inatively engaged travellers. In Journey Without Maps, Graham Greene’s account of his 1935 West African voyage, the author explains this nostalgic yearning to travel backward in time: there are times of impatience, when one is less content to rest at the urban stage, when one is willing to suffer some discomfort for the chance of finding— there tire a thousand names for it, King Solomon’s Mines, the “heart of darkness” if one is romantically inclined, or more simply, as Herr Heuser puts it in his African novel, The In ner Journey, one’s place in time, based on a knowledge not only of one’s present but of the past from which one has emerged. (19-20) Removed from the familiarity of home — from sedentary life, which often finds the day’s measure in Prufrock’s coffee-spoons— the traveller may ap­ prehend time’s passage in new and strange ways. Venturing into worlds wherein shards of transition lie all around — the vestiges of some ancient 449 order intimated in, say, a ruined fortress, a disintegrating wall, a humble cottage— voyagers, in their vagaries, effectively meet history head-on. Re­ minders of a bygone age often inspire nostalgic travel writers to recreate the lost or declining worlds they adventure among in an effort to rescue from obscurity their values, ways, and marvels. By virtue of this preserving in­ stinct, the travel writer becomes the figurative “last survivor” of places and civilizations that are evocative of the past. Patrick Leigh Fermor’s The Violins of Saint-Jacques, a novella cast in the form of a travel book, illuminates this last-survivor motif in the literature of travel.1The story is imparted by a first-person narrator, an English trav­ eller in Mytilene who encounters a cultivated old Frenchwoman, Berthe de Rennes, the sole survivor of a volcanic eruption that completely destroyed the (fictitious) island of Saint-Jacques in 1902.2 The narrative recounts her sojourn as a young woman in this fin de siècle outpost of declining French colonialism.3 In Fermor’s “treasure house” of “cultural and linguistic rich­ ness,” to use Simon Winchester’s apt description of the book (145), the nar­ rator recreates the luxurious, tropical atmosphere of Berthe’s Saint-Jacques and the decadence of its opulent French aristocracy. The portrait of the Serindans — the ruling family and Berthe’s relations— is noteworthy. From her description of the memorial slabs that “walled and paved” (20) the local church, the Englishman sumptuously reproduces in his narrative the history and temperament of the noble family: The orgulous record of their gestures— the carnage they had wrought among the Caribs and the English, their Christian virtues, the multitude of their progeny, their valour in attack and their impavid patience in ad..." @default.
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