The Authors of the Cosmoroute

The Autonomous Cosmopolitan (original title: Los autonautas de la cosmopista), subtitled A Timeless Paris-Marseille Journey, is a novel by the writer couple Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop, published in Spanish in 1983 and same year in French at Gallimard. It was translated from Spanish by Laure Bataillon for the texts of Julio Cortázar and by Françoise Campo for the logbook and the legends of the photographs. Resize the code

In 1982, the two authors knew they were suffering from an incurable disease and decided to share a final journey together. For thirty-two days, the two writers travel the A6 motorway from Paris to Marseilles aboard Fafner, a Volkswagen combi, compulsory to visit two motorway areas per day. In the manner of explorers, he documents the 75 areas visited by means of a logbook, photographs, drawings. They describe in detail the landscapes, their encounters, the dangers and threats they face in this illegal adventure (it is forbidden to stay more than twenty-four hours on a motorway area). Little by little, a secret world seems to open up to them, their slow progress in a territory reserved for speed allows them to observe as they wish while being protected by their constraint and to suspend time. Characters change the code

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