Japanese Chronicle.
Payot| N° d'inventaire | 22236 |
| Format | 11 x 17 |
| Détails | 258 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782228913287 |
"The traveler is a continual source of perplexity," writes Nicolas Bouvier. "His place is everywhere and nowhere. He lives on stolen moments, reflections, small gifts, windfalls, and crumbs." This is Japan according to Bouvier. An archipelago steeped in history and spirituality, as much the land of the samurai as it is that of the humble. Where others summon an entire library to give themselves the air of a Zen thinker, Bouvier captures the smell of the air, the color of a face, a conversation in the street to deliver to us in one line the diamond of a sensation.
"The traveler is a continual source of perplexity," writes Nicolas Bouvier. "His place is everywhere and nowhere. He lives on stolen moments, reflections, small gifts, windfalls, and crumbs." This is Japan according to Bouvier. An archipelago steeped in history and spirituality, as much the land of the samurai as it is that of the humble. Where others summon an entire library to give themselves the air of a Zen thinker, Bouvier captures the smell of the air, the color of a face, a conversation in the street to deliver to us in one line the diamond of a sensation.