The Discourse of Flanerie in Antonio Munoz Molina’s Texts

By exploring how Spain's leading contemporary author continues and modifies the tradition of flaneur literature (Poe, Baudelaire, Benjamin) in novels and urban sketches between 1987 and 2009, this study adds to Muñoz Molina criticism which has ignored cross-cultural aspects of his texts. The author's Spanish renegotiation of the primitivist, Orientalist, and colonialist heritage of flaneur literature is of interest to scholars in Spanish cultural and postcolonial studies, twentieth and twenty-first Spanish literature, comparative literature, and new modernism.