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In a globalised world in which 68.5 million people are migrants, the representation of borders and border crossers in the media is a controversial issue. This article explores how transcultural literature moves beyond one-dimensional depictions of borders and migrants and instead creates differentiated perspectives. Gazmend Kapllani’s A Short Border Handbook (2009 in Greek, translated into English in 2010) and Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (2017, written in English) both revolve around a “border syndrome”, an illness incorporating a fear of the border and a simultaneous urge to transgress it, as well as a fascination with liminality. This article argues that these literary texts narrate borders as palimpsests of different temporalities and geographies, of external and internal as well as political and metaphysical borders, which accounts for the complexity and ultimate incurability of the “border syndrome”.

“I Suffer from Border Syndrome”: The Palimpsest of Borders in Transcultural Texts of Migration