Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Publication Title

Literature, Geography, Translation: Studies in World Writing

First Page

198

Last Page

208

Abstract

The ephemerality of Susana Chavez-Silverman's desires for a very specific scent, remembered well although smelt only once on a stranger in passing, meets the disappointment of the un-searched for, the inauthentic, the reality of cheap cologne. Maybe precisely for its lack of fulfillment the search remains a quest, and the latter term does not seem too exaggerated for as frivolous a search as this one, because it functions as a metaphor for many other searches.

Rights

Reproduced with permission of Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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