by Lucien Bodard · Grasset · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246389118
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«Les Grandes Murailles» is Lucien Bodard's autobiographical travel narrative, published by Grasset in paperback (490 pages, in French).
In this work, Bodard narrates in the first person a journey to China and interweaves the country's past with its present: he portrays its contradictions, mythologies and disorders, but also its wisdom, in a journey that blends personal memory, history and reportage of a complex culture.
Originally published in 1987, the work falls within travel literature and reportage, with China as its central theme.
For readers interested in travel literature, journalistic reportage and understanding China from a personal and intimate perspective.
Lucien Bodard was a Chinese-born French reporter, and writer on events in East and Southeast Asia, such as the Indochinese nations becoming independent from France, and the Vietnam War.
