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Titre: Sur les chemins noirs
Auteur: Sylvain Tesson
Narrateur: Grégori Baquet
Format: Unabridged
Durée: 3 hrs and 51 mins
Langue: Français
Date de publication: 03-23-17
Éditeur: Gallimard
Evaluation: 4 sur 5 sur 2 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Résumé de l'éditeur:
"Il m'aura fallu courir le monde et tomber d'un toit pour saisir que je disposais là, sous mes yeux, dans un pays si proche dont j'ignorais les replis, d'un réseau de chemins campagnards ouverts sur le mystère, baignés de pur silence, miraculeusement vides. La vie me laissait une chance, il était donc grand temps de traverser la France à pied sur mes chemins noirs. Là, personne ne vous indique ni comment vous tenir, ni quoi penser, ni même la direction à prendre."
(Sylvain Tesson)
©2016 Éditions Gallimard (P)2016 Éditions Gallimard
Avis des membres:
France is a country thatâ
âis 16 days wide and 25 days long. I learned that factoid from Gillian Tindallâs excellent book on rural FranceCelestine: Voices from a French Village. Those units of measure refer to the optimum way of seeing the country â walking. Regrettably, they seem to be a Napoleonic measure, with the implications of a forced march, with little time left to âsmell the roses.â I recently watched again the movieForrest Gump, principally to see those famous scenes where he decided going out for an extended walk (actually, a run) would be the best therapy, with a classic ending to the run in Monument Valley (AZ). Based on an excellent recommendation, I learned that Sylvian Tesson combined these two disparate threads. He decided the therapy that he needed was a good walk across France. Not just any walk, mind you, but one on the âChemins noirs,â the black paths.
Tesson is a famous French author, with numerous books to his credit, set in many of the wonderful locales of the world. One of his best known works concerns his stay in a log cabin in Siberia. Another â hum â is entitled âa life sleeping outsideâ. He was at a dinner party which was âbien arrosé,â a bit too much booze, and he took up the challenge to climb the wall of the house. He fell some eight to ten meters, and was seriously injured, spending numerous months in the hospital and rehab. He indicated that the medical staff was not âjudgmental,â a sentiment that resonated with my own experience eating a poison mushroom in Finland.
Though still in pain, and with a distorted face â stroke-like, he decided his own best rehab would be a walk across France, from south to north. He started in Tende, in extreme southeastern France, on the border with Italy, and walked all the way to the tip of the Cotentin Peninsula, on La Manche (the English Channel.) He planned his walk in order to experience the âhyper-ruralityâ of France, and notes that 30 of its 96 departements are officially classified as such. He went across the Mercantour, the south side of Mount Ventoux, crossed the Rhone, into the Massif Central, then the Berry, Touraine, Mayenne, Mount St. Michel and up the west coast of Cotentin. It would take him 76 days, from August 24 to November 08, 2015 (an ideal time of year for such a hike).
âMon grand jeuâ is what Tesson calls it. My great game, to stay on what he calls the black paths, that is, the unmarked ancient trails of man and animals, far removed from the (beloved) Grandes Randonnées, the well-marked âsuperhighwaysâ of hiking in Europe.