DEUX PARODIES DE DISCOURS TOURISTIQUE : PAMUKALIE (2003) D’EUGENE MEILTZ ET MOLVANÎA (2003) DE SANTO CILAURO, TOM GLEISNER ET ROB SITCH
TWO PARODIES OF TOURISM DISCOURSE: PAMUKALIE (2003) BY EUGEN MEILTZ AND MOLVAN A (2003) BY SANTO CILAURO, TOM GLEISNER AND ROB SITCH

Summary/Abstract: Pamukalie, pays fabuleux by Eugène Meiltz and Christian Denisart, published in France in 2003 and Molvanîa by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch, also published in 2003, but in Australia, and translated into French, in 2006, with a unusual title: La Molvanie. Le pays que s’il n’existait pas, faudrait l’inventer (« The country that if it did not exist, would have to be invented »), are parodies of guides designed to give information to tourists in order to discover places likely to be visited. But these countries, Pamukalia in the Middle East and Molvanîa in central Europe do not exist. In this perspective, rather, they are novels that renew the notion of "utopia", of a place that is absent, idealized or, on the contrary, disparaged. What exactly is it? Where do these parodies, as attractive as disturbing, lead their readers?

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