Die Reise beginnt im eigenen Zimmer – imaginäre Topographien in Oswald Eggers Künstlerbuch Entweder ich habe die Fahrt am Mississippi nur geträumt, oder ich träume jetzt
Journey Begins in One’s Own Room – Imaginary Topographies in Oswald Egger’s Artist Book "Either I only dreamed the trip on the Mississippi or I’m dreaming now"

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to read Oswald Egger’s prose text: „Either I only dreamed the trip on the Mississippi or I’m dreaming now” (2021) as travel literature. Egger’s artist book, which relates an imaginary trip to the Mississippi in text and image, is not a travelogue in the traditional sense, but a highly complex and auto-referential work that plays with the transgression between the real and the imaginary. Using Egger as an example, the article discusses the hermeneutic movements of travel and writing and the media transformation of real and fictional journeys, exploring both the mobility patterns and the corresponding writing and image processes.

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