Éloge de la marche

Synopsis of Éloge de la marche

Walking is an escape from modernity, a way to mock it, to leave it stranded, a shortcut in the frantic pace of our lives and a way to distance ourselves, to sharpen our senses. David Le Breton mixes Pierre Sansot and Patrick Leigh Fermor in *In Praise of Walking*, but he also makes Basho and Stevenson dialogue without worrying about historical rigor, since the purpose of this exquisite book does not lie there, it is only about walking together, exchanging impressions, as if we were around a table in a hostel at the edge of the road, in the afternoon, when fatigue and wine make us talk.