Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- City and Travel. Walking the (Un)Known City -- 1. Reading the City -- 2. On Rivers and Maps. Iberian Approaches to Comparatism -- 3. Borders in the City: Rewriting Walls -- 4. "Decrèpita i teatral"? On Literary Explorations of Barcelona -- 5. The Lights and Names of Paris: Llorenç Villalonga's Bearn -- 6. Exile in the City: Mercè Rodoreda's La plaça del Diamant -- 7. Literary Construction: the Case of Eduardo Mendoza -- 8. In Transit: Exploring Travelogues -- 9. Back from the USSR . Travelers in the Land of the Soviets -- 10. Lightweight Luggage: Travel and Exile -- 11. Threshold to Nowhere? Travelogues to Non-places -- Bibliography -- Index