Nouveaux bréviaires du voyageur. Guides littéraires, vade-mecum et théories viatiques au début du xxiesiècle

If the travelogue is still very successful at the beginning of the 21st century, the same goes for all the more unclassifiable genres that put the art of moving into perspective: treatises and talks proliferate to discuss the proper use of travel, in line with the arts of travel with an instructive aim, while dictionaries and anthologies are multiplying to offer alternatives to tourist handbooks. It remains to be seen whether the inventiveness is to be found in the design of the trip or in the form of these vade-mecum: this article shows that the stereotype is perhaps less, nowadays, on the side of travel guides than of the side of theoretical manifestos that would like to take the opposite view of tourism to exalt adventure or, conversely, motionless travel.