A summer with Homer, a journey in the wake of Ulysses.
Ecuador Editions| N° d'inventaire | 26308 |
| Format | 11 x 16 |
| Détails | 238 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782849906637 |
We should learn the Iliad and the Odyssey by heart, like summer hits, because Homer's two stories not only constitute the music of our humanity but also contain our entire future.
Following the success of A Summer with Homer, Sylvain Tesson set off aboard a sailboat in the footsteps of Ulysses. For several weeks, he sailed the Mediterranean, dived in the mare nostrum, climbed volcanoes, and met scholars and goddesses of culture, such as Andrea Marcolongo, the author of The Brilliant Language: 9 Good Reasons to Love Greek, who shed light on his odyssey. This book is therefore both the illustrated version of A Summer with Homer (200,000 copies sold), but also the supplement to this Homeric voyage. It contains previously unpublished captions by Sylvain Tesson, genuine prose poems, and paintings by the traveling painter Laurence Bost. Added to this are black and white photos by photographer Frédéric Boissonnas, who in the 1920s accompanied Victor Bérard, the translator of Homer, to identify the places in Ullysian geography.
A fabulous book of travel, culture and sea spray.
We should learn the Iliad and the Odyssey by heart, like summer hits, because Homer's two stories not only constitute the music of our humanity but also contain our entire future.
Following the success of A Summer with Homer, Sylvain Tesson set off aboard a sailboat in the footsteps of Ulysses. For several weeks, he sailed the Mediterranean, dived in the mare nostrum, climbed volcanoes, and met scholars and goddesses of culture, such as Andrea Marcolongo, the author of The Brilliant Language: 9 Good Reasons to Love Greek, who shed light on his odyssey. This book is therefore both the illustrated version of A Summer with Homer (200,000 copies sold), but also the supplement to this Homeric voyage. It contains previously unpublished captions by Sylvain Tesson, genuine prose poems, and paintings by the traveling painter Laurence Bost. Added to this are black and white photos by photographer Frédéric Boissonnas, who in the 1920s accompanied Victor Bérard, the translator of Homer, to identify the places in Ullysian geography.
A fabulous book of travel, culture and sea spray.