Everything opposes and everything unites Régis Debray and Sylvain Tesson.
Between them, it's not the rose and the mignonette, the one who believes in heaven and the one who doesn't.
But the one who believes in history and the one who flees in geography.
The normalien and the mountaineer, the activist and the adventurer, Sartre against Homer, the maquis of South America and the steppes of Asia.
What brings them together?
A clear and lively language, a prose which constantly mixes experience and analysis, a cult of good words and protrusion.
A form of antimodernism, snobbery of the peaks for one, skepticism of someone who has lived it all for the other.
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