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Chargement... The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (original 2013; édition 2013)par Patrick; Edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper Leigh Fermor (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos par Patrick Leigh Fermor (2013)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Ok ( ) OK, I'm a travel-writing junkie, and also have a mild Europe-between-the-wars addiction. So this saga, finding me in the first months of pandemic lockdown, was a perfect fit and virtual get out of jail free card. Three things about the remarkable author: His audacity, to set off walking across Europe at the age of 18 (although he was endowed an upper-class Brit's self-confidence vis-a-vis the world). His polymathic mind, both insatiably curious and already well-educated. And the amazing detail he was able to recall and describe, writing about this journey several decades later. Or maybe he made the detail up, which wouldn't bother me in the least. A great trip for him, and for me as a reader. The final, not quite finished volume of Fermor's trilogy about walking from the North Sea to Constantinople is full of his precise, vivid descriptions of birds, people and places and of his adventures on the roads of Balkan nations, primarily Bulgaria. Sadly, he never finished his account of the journey, which ends near the border between Bulgaria and Turkey. A sample of his fragmentary diary entries from Constantinople ends the journey, but his more complete journal of his first visit to Mount Athos rounds out the book--this section is fascinating; Fermor focuses much more on the personalities of the people he encounters than on the icons or liturgies, but what details he recounts are acute, entertaining and fascinating.
I have said that Patrick Leigh Fermor’s first two books about his great adventure lacked the satisfying structure of Bildung narratives. The irony of the publication of his final, posthumous work is that it creates, retrospectively and almost accidentally, something of that meaningful arc for the entire trilogy. By the end, the lacquered manner has dissolved, and a different, far more touching and sympathetic hero emerges. Given how the shortcomings of this book so tormented Paddy's last decades, few of us thought it likely that it would contain any material to equal its great predecessors. The wonderful surprise is that, while the book is certainly uneven, and contains some jottings and lists that are little more than raw, unworked data, overall it is every bit as masterly as Between the Woods and the Water, while some passages – such as his marvellous account of a love affair in the old Bulgarian city of Plovdiv – are the match for some of the great passages of A Time of Gifts. Appartient à la sérieAppartient à la série éditorialePrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
D?couvrez le troisi?me tome de la trilogie Dans la nuit et le vent, une oeuvre encens?e par la critique! Un matin gris de d?cembre 1933, le jeune Patrick Leigh Fermor quitte l'Angleterre avec l'id?e de traverser l'Europe ? pied jusqu'? Constantinople. Une aventure qui sera le grand ?v?nement de sa vie et dont il tirera un r?cit magistral en plusieurs volumes (Le Temps des offrandes, Entre fleuve et for?t et La route interrompue). D?couvrez le troisi?me tome de cette oeuvre majeure du XX?me si?cle: La route interrompue. Un chef-d' uvre d'humanisme ? la rencontre d'un monde disparu, o ?clatent l'intelligence, la culture et la passion juv?niles de l'auteur. L'?dition compl?te de ce livre est disponible chez le m?me ?diteur sous le nom Dans la nuit et le vent. Un p?riple passionnant! CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE: Un enchantement de fra?cheur, de drlerie, d'aventures - Jean d'Ormesson, Le Figaro Magazine Il faut beaucoup de pudeur, peut-?tre du recul, pour parler aussi bien du bonheur - Nicolas Bouvier, L'Express L'art du voyage, on l'a compris, est d'abord un art de la digression. Le livre se confond avec le voyage lui-m?me - Fr?d?ric Vitoux, Le Nouvel Observateur On se laisse conduire avec un plaisir constamment renouvel? par l'art et l'?rudition d'un magistral ?crivain-voyageur - Jacques Franck, La Libre Belgique Qui se priverait d'un tel livre? - Luis Lema, Le Temps Le plus l?gendaire des ?crivains-voyageurs - Catherine Golliau, Le Point Un chef-d' uvre du r?cit de voyage ? la britannique - Marc Semo, Lib?ration ? PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR: Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) est un ?crivain et voyageur anglais, ancien officier des Services sp?ciaux de l'arm?e britannique en Cr?te durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En dehors de ses voyages, il partagea sa vie entre la Gr?ce et l'Angleterre. Ses nombreux livres r?v?lent un ?crivain d'une merveilleuse ?rudition, profond?ment attach? aux langues et cultures. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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