Cartographies of Disappearance

Enric Bou is a professor of Iberian studies at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.

Alfredo Martínez-Expósito, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Spanish, University of Melbourne:
“A major voice in contemporary Iberian Studies, in this collection Enric Bou takes us on an extraordinary journey into the ordinary: the mundane nearby, the metro, food, happiness. Beautifully and precisely written, Bou’s incisive essays reveal unsuspected meanings in the everyday, the banal, and the habitual, appealing simultaneously to the poetic and the forensic, the real and its myriad vanishing points.”

Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies, Boston University:
“In Cartographies of Disappearance, Enric Bou masterfully reminds us of the power of literature to disclose the obvious yet also most concealed complexities of everyday life. From chapter to chapter, covering everything from avant-garde aesthetics and public transportation to foodscapes and present-day immigration, Bou weaves a compelling narrative about the ways we build our social world, our very sense of self and place, from a vast range of seemingly prosaic activities, objects, and spaces. Cartographies of Disappearance is a book of enormous scope and intelligence.”