Translation of: L'infinito viaggiare. Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274).
Contents:
The great south. Marionettes in Madrid -- The bibliophage -- At the "Mentitoio" -- A father, a son -- Spoon River in Cantabria -- Don Serafin's first flight -- In London, at school -- The fortunate isles -- The Prussian road to peace -- The old Prussia puts on a show -- The wall -- On Lotte's tomb -- In Freiburg the Day of German Unity is remote -- The dying forest -- Ludwig's castles in the air -- Among the Sorbs of Lusatia -- The anonymous Viennese -- Schoenberg's table -- The rabbi's dance -- Musical automatons in Zagreb -- Istrian spring -- Cici and Ciribiri -- In Bisiacaria -- A fateful hyphen -- On the Charles Bridge -- The country without a name -- The tragedy and the nightmare -- Poland turns the page -- On Raskolnikov's Landing -- The birch whistle -- A hippopotamus in Lund -- The woodland cemetery -- The fjord -- Parish of the north -- Water and desert -- Is China near? -- The borders of Vietnam -- The great south.
Summary:
A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys.
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