In the XIX century, occurs a significant increase in the trips, especially due to the innovation in technology of the means of transportation. That development is followed by the production and by the consumption of literature related to the theme. Likewise in the contemporary literature the travelogues are recurring. The present article aims to approach the reports and stories that compose Der gelbe Bleistift (The yellow pencil), by the swiss author Christian Kracht, making a counterpoint with the travel literature of the XIX century. Among the centuries travel literature didn't lose it's fascination, contributing to enlarge the horizons of the readers, but also to question their own values under a perspective of a detached look of their own reality.
Travel literature; narrator; intertextuality; search of paradise