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Going Mundial : What It Really Means to Desire Paris Jaime Hanneken n The World Republic of Letters Pascale Casanova proposes to read modern literary history on a global scale through the movement and deinition of literary capital as it circulates independently of broader political and economic networks of power. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s ields of value, she sketches an international economy whose transactions and investments inhere in a shared belief in the “asset” of literary value and that, however divorced it may be from other forms of power, consolidates a geographic and historical center roughly coincident with the commonplaces of nonliterary accounts of modernity: “Literary space creates a present on the basis of which all positions can be measured, a point in relation to which all other points can be located. . . . What might be called the Greenwich meridian of literature makes it possible to estimate the relative aesthetic distance from the center of the world of letters of all of those who belong to it.”1 In Casanova’s proposals, Paris serves as this meridian: because of its long accumulation of literary prestige and its relative freedom from political concerns, I 1 Pascale Casanova, The World Republ