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This article is a study of Marseille and an examination of the spatio-temporality of transit through novel, film, and place. Adapted for the screen by Christian Petzold in 2015, Transit is a semi-autobiographical work exploring borders, identity and exile — a novel “written in transition” by Anna Seghers in 1942 (Petzold: 2021). This article retraces Seghers’ route from Paris to Marseille, writing into the space and time of the train journey to form a site-writing (Rendell: 2010), before examining a transitional space shifted from novel to film, the Mont Vertoux, and exploring the larger cultural conditions situating literature, film, and architecture. Drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, Victor Burgin, Hélène Frichot and Naomi Stead, Jane Rendell, and Dora Zhang, this article explores the “continuum of transformations” (Benjamin: 1916) at play in the “removal from one language into another” of the self across disciplinary, temporal, and spatial borders.
Author(s): Blackman T
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Architecture and Culture: Border Fictions
Year: 2024
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 13/06/2025
Acceptance date: 23/12/2022
Date deposited: 17/10/2025
ISSN (print): 2050-7828
ISSN (electronic): 2050-7836
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2024.2381184
DOI: 10.1080/20507828.2024.2381184
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