The majority of fictional texts can be localized geographically in terms of scenario and plot. However, these localizations are constructed in different ways, from imaginary to realistic. I will analyze the contemporary novel Desterro: memórias em ruínas (2011), by Luis S. Krausz, following this premise. The book offers a range of sophisticated representations of fictionalized real spaces, some of them representing a past that no longer exists. Through my analysis I will test a special method that has been developed recently under the name of "literary geography". This approach addresses the relevant questions of text-space relations in general, as well as the different forms of referring to geographical spaces (indicating, suppressing, anonymizing, transforming). Furthermore, different functions are attributed to the fictionalized spaces. In a second step, in line with the same method, I will test the potential of maps in providing an interpretative framework for the analysis. Possible limitations to this method will then be discussed.
space; literary geography; literary methods; Luis S. Krausz