ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the 1935 Writers Congress as an important event in the transnational intellectual and literary history of Europe. Moreover, the Congress is a European case of the development of an awareness as to a reality; in other words, Europe is considered a transnational cultural region and the Congress embodies a transnational alliance of intellectuals who opposed nationalism and war in times of a dramatic rise of extreme nationalism. By assessing key contributions to the Parisian Congress, the analysis demonstrates the potential of an integrated perspective combining research questions pertaining to the study of regions in the Social Sciences, as well as in area and literary studies.
