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"[W]e don't have literary atlases... So – why not try to make one?" Franco Moretti, in Atlas of the European Novel, 1800 – 1900 (1998)
"To enable the world to narrate: does this not also mean to have in mind a map of literature, which also values the space of literature?"
Lojze Wieser, in "Die Zunge reicht weiter als die Hand": Anmerkungen eines Grenzverlegers (2004)
Perspectives on a Geography of Literature
Where is the setting of literature? This supposedly simple question uncovers an area of research so far only established in its rudiments: literary geography.
Literary geographical methods form the basis of an entirely new, spatially structured, cartographically supported literary history – a literary atlas of Europe. This interactive mapping project makes visible the multiple relationships between real and imaginary geographies, and adequately represents the spaces of fiction.
The following institutions are participants in the pilot version of the Literary Atlas of Europe: Institute of Cartography, ETH Zurich (CH); Georg August University, Göttingen (D), Charles University, Prague (CZ).
The project is funded for three years by the GEBERT RÜF Foundation, Basel.
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