In
Blanc
, Sylvain Tesson recounts his crossing of the Alps on skis with his friend Daniel du Lac, a high mountain guide.
From 2018 to 2021, from Menton to Trieste via Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, the writer experiences a journey in absolute whiteness, a substance without shape or contours: a waking dream.
Is talking about me on promo a chore?
I see it as a fun exercise, a game of masking and hiding where it's about responding in an extremely voluble way without revealing that much – saying a lot while saying as little as possible, really.
We're like the squid that throws a cloud of ink while spinning backwards… We talk about what we've written while giving the impression that we're giving ourselves up completely, while we're on the sidelines.
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Why is this book important to me?
For years I have been turning around a definition of the total trip, which would take me completely away, and I found in the stay in the high mountains the contours of…
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