walk on: the beauty of wandering on foot as a means of distancing from reality, as an energy source, as a moment of reflection as a form of freedom, as awareness. Not an activity related to the summer and maybe even just an activity but a way of being.
• WALKING
Henry David Thoreau, Mondadori 2009, translated by Massimo Jevolella, 7.50 €
little over fifty pages, but they have served almost ten years to reach the final print.
Thoreau, American nineteenth century, became famous for two works Walden, or Life in the woods (published in the U.S. in 1854) and Civil Disobedience (published in 1849). The first comes from the experience of the author in the forest surrounding the lake Walden (Massachusetts) not far from his home one day, July 4, 1845, Thoreau out of Concord and heads towards the vast forest that surrounds the lake, embracing a life for two years as a hermit, a complete immersion in the wild nature defined, but which has un equilibrio e un’armonia salvatrice e guaritrice. Thoreau non traduce nell’immediato questa esperienza in forma scritta: forse le leggi della natura gli hanno trasmesso capacità meditative e di elaborazione, che lo portano a far decantare i pensieri. Nel frattempo, mentre lui si dedicava a peregrinare nei boschi, lontano da ogni forma di contaminazione umana, gli Stati uniti dichiarano guerra al Messico: questo fatto storico entra con violenza nella sua vita pacifica e lo porta a reagire non pagando le tasse per protestare contro il governo che aveva promosso una guerra ingiusta. L’esperienza del carcere che ne consegue si trasforma nel breve saggio Disobbedienza civile , che prende la forma di una sorta di manuale di resistenza. Here, then, that the first two works overlap: on the one hand the most bucolic, other harsh reaction against the events that go against the laws of nature, in itself peaceful.
In the same year comes to light and Walking (1851-1862), first in the form of public lectures, as then written collection: a short essay, but intense, in a somewhat prophetic, looking askance at the industrial civilization and identifies the nature and wandering in the salvation of the spirit. Route on foot, without a goal, which allows you to think and to blend into nature to absorb the balance and purity.
• THE WALK
Robert Walser, 1976 Adelphi, translation by Emilio Castellani, 9.00 €
A story made up by the Swiss writer in 1919: a desire to roam which almost sudden one morning and takes him to take his hat and leave the house. Walser left behind the dark thoughts, she wears an air of calm and prepare your mind to new experiences, a gallery of images and encounters, each of which shall cause for reflection. Calm reflection, that turns wandering in a spiritual journey, which confuses the imaginary / imagined in real because there is no difference in perception. The walk is a sort of metaphor for the life of the writer, writing, wandering: In both encounters are random e sorprendenti, fonti di riflessione e estraneamento dal mondo.
• VAGABONDING
Rolf Potts, Ponte alle Grazie 2008, traduzione di Stefano Beretta, 12 euro
Potts è un viaggiatore, uno di quelli che girano con lo zaino in spalla. Potts ha fatto del viaggio una filosofia, considerandolo non semplicemente una valvola di sfogo ma un vero progetto di vita: non interrompe la normale routine lavorativa, ma la imbeve costantemente diventando uno stato d’animo permanente. Libertà, fantasia, curiosità e desiderio di crescita personale diventano i valori da perseguire. E partire diventa un viaggio con se stessi, un mettersi in cerca di se stessi, un essere in movimento ancora prima di aver scelto un percorso, psicologicamente and emotionally even before the physical move. •
the world on foot. IN PRAISE OF MARCH
David Le Breton, Feltrinelli 208 (first ed. 2001), translated by Esther Dornetti, 7.00 €
A new way to travel, an almost subversive and transgressive: apiedi travel, to enjoy time and place to distance themselves from the hectic reality and sharpen your senses. A cross between short stories and essays, in which dialogue and feelings are exchanged between the author and historical figures (Stevenson, Sansot, Basho) on the way to travel the world and life on foot. Le Breton celebrates the go which leads to pleasure, which stimulates the meeting, the conversation, the use of time and proceed to stop.
• WALKING
Pino Cacucci, Feltrinelli 2009 (first ed. 1996), € 6.50
Cacucci's journey is a slow journey, which has as its purpose and source of wealth of the match. Cacucci loves to stop and listen to those who have something to tell: stories appear without a country, stories of citizens of the world, any events that meet people, writers, musicians, journalists in tragic and comic stories, simple and absurd, they discover a bit 'of world even closer to reality in our daily lives. A continuous contamination and profitable, which often carries the reader into mythological space disguised as reality and vice versa.
• WALK. ALL OVER THE WORLD (EVEN IN THE CITY ')
Tomas Espedal, Ponte alle Grazie, 2009, translated by Lucia Barni, 15.00 €
praise of walking again, this time coming from Norway, home to Espedal. Walk, think, write, create, are part of one reality. No matter what the venue, what time, what is the distance traveled is the approach that matters is giving a rhythm to life. The pace of the pass, which marks the walk, the day and life. The pace of the pass, which gives the awareness of existence, which exceeds the need to transfer from one place to another and becomes an inner need
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