book that kept me company for weeks, having read it slowly, including abroad, it results in great condition, a certain attachment to the personality of the author.
I wanted to get the first volume of the Journal published since 1985, I read a few pages and had loved the first volume but is difficult to obtain, being exhausted and not available in bookshops, those of Lyon and in any case those active on the canvas. I go to Diogenes in the old Lyon and I found this book, a beautiful volume, showing a photograph of the most seductive, a relic of ancient times, the volume of a little green in use English.
The author follows a scheduled route driving his R5 whose back seat is lined with books, guides and others. The course takes place from 15 April 1980 until 15 June of that year. There is the text, while the writer comments written by the light of his notes, with a slight delay and other additions when reading the proofs, which sometimes can produce strange effects near . The reader can thus, in the midst of a long description, read a digression on the role of bodily evacuations or more trivially obtain the result of a battle with flies. This may sound strange but the fact is that we truly share the thoughts of the author and the low points, and other smaller, richer.
The thread is rather architectural, especially the castles. Camus sees, among other reasons, their attachment to the archaic signs, which also goes into his tongue and making my own pleasure. To be effective, Camus is flanked by a literary guide, for quotes and literary references abound, and several regional guides blue. The guide also Spartacus, I did not know, which lists places not frequented achriens, places visited by Camus and whose activities are recounted accurately and relaxation. Camus does not hide anything, that's what I like. Proponents of modesty would be offended idiots because language is the same, the style does not tell the difference and the language is beautiful ... A dangerous place, because hunting is done willingly achriens is next AYOR (At Your Own Risks) ... The discovery of an underworld, methods of dredging, a world quite exciting as any new and structured universe. Camus is free but love, so he allows himself all the digressions. The ideal of the trick (p. 271): " our short pleasure of being together, our fun, our mutual affection were not tainted by ulterior motives of duration of attachment, possession . " And meetings, and men, all different. Camus wants to make a guide, which he wrote with that title later, so why insert his sexual encounters? "... the purpose of this book is to tell everything from a trip and a specified period. The completeness, the full , within these limits are the essence of the project. I do not think that sexuality, or homosexuality, it must be accorded a special status would be) this exclusion. The guides always seem usual for pure spirits, and the glorious body of work. realism is in the subjective mood, accident, or the desire not satisfied at any order he belongs . "(P. 344).
be added reviews of life in hotel, restaurant meals, hospitality establishments in the provinces, of things seen, heard, all this makes me happy, Camus is a be endearing and his diary is valuable, how the presence is necessary to not feel totally alone.
" I'm a big boy served by broad-shouldered, clumsy, which makes touching efforts to adapt to a new situation, a farmer in his first day in town . "(p. 381)
" The best memorial would be for two friends to you, cutting between fields on the far end of a summer day, when worries about being expected for dinner, wonder:
- You remember how he loved this time, this light? "(p. 473)
