Telegram Books: Autonauts of the Cosmoroute

Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop

In May 1982, Julio Cortazar set out with his wife Carol Dunlop aboard their VW camper van to explore the uncharted territory of the Paris to Marseilles freeway.

They loaded up with supplies – food, water, wine, cameras, typewriters – and prepared for an arduous voyage of thirty-three days. The rules of the expedition had been set down: they must not leave the motorway, and they must explore each of the rest areas along the way, at a rate of two per day. The result is a brilliantly funny, irreverent travelogue.

Translated by Anne Mclean

Posted by Nancy on April 30, 2008 01:15 PM to Telegram Books