CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE "PERENIAL OTHER"
CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE "PERENIAL OTHER"

Summary/Abstract: In light of the recent migration phenomenon and of the so-called fear for the Islamization of our old continent, my paper is an attempt to deal with the art of travel writing and the image of the Turks as the "Perennial Other" in Central Europe, due to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, starting with the 14th century. The text I have chosen for my analysis is a travelogue produced by a British writer and traveller through Hungary and Romania in the 1930s: Between the Woods and the Water by Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (published in Romanian translation in the spring of 2016).

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