The canonical intertext Avalovara materializes in this article from the dialogue with Osman Lins's novel with The Divine Comedy, by Dante, Werther, by Goethe, Moby Dick, by Melville, and La Modification, by Butor. These works are joined around a common experience of their protagonists: the journey and the quest for something inapprehensible, nuclear reasons of epic genre.
Intertext; Travel; Epic genre; Comparative literature
