Multilingüismo e interculturalidad en la experiencia Erasmus en „El final del viaje”, de María Sanz

Abstract

Every trip has an end and every dream an awakening. El final del viaje is the story of many crossed trips: physical, imaginary and emotional, which come together the first time that the protagonist, Elisa, goes to a foreign country. She is an intelligent and imaginative young woman whose maximum ambition is to know the wide world. Her expectations begin to come true when she receives a six-month Erasmus scholarship in Antwerp (Belgium). Off she goes full of hope and eagerness, but, once there, she has to face the inconveniences of being away from home, in a country whose main official language she doesn’t speak, but she also meets a series of atypical people, according to her standard, among them a Belgian student of dramatic art, an Indian and a Turk, whose friendship will be the key to a world that combines fantasy and reality for her. Her quiet student life is altered when she meets Filip, a Belgian teacher of Spanish. With him, and through him, she awakens from what had been the dream of Antwerp until then. Elisa’s passage through the Belgian city becomes a decisive step in the process of her psychological and sexual maturity from the naive and dreamy young woman who had begun a journey in search of adventures and exotic experiences and who in the end she found herself.

Keywords

• Multilingualism
• intercultural
• Erasmus scholarship
• awakening
• Bildungsroman