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A collection of dense, dreamy travel essays, first published in France in 1958, by an acclaimed poet, critic, and proponent of the ""new novel."" Butor's travelogues, like his novels, excel in exact descriptions of physical states. Here, landscapes are often reduced to geometric patterns; Cordova is remembered for ""the cleanliness of the sun and the coolness of the precise shadows it cast, triangles or trapezoids changing proportions according to the day and the hour."" Other places whose patte...
Forgettable. Uninteresting even for fans of Butor. Don’t waste your time. For Butor completists only.
My favorite section was a very short essay on a night Butor spends in a small village. Butor misses the bus out of the quiet town and man and his family welcome him into their home and play games deep into the night. The Good Samaritan story is quite old, and Butor's story left me feeling warm. He managed to capture the warmth of that family, of the city, and the surprise of human friendship.
