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Tramp: Or the Art of Living a Wild and Poetic Life

English · Paperback / Softback

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A lyrical travelogue charting Tomas Espedal's journeys to and ruminations around the world, from his native Norway to Istanbul and beyond.

"Why travel?" asks Tomas Espedal in Tramp, "Why not just stay at home, in your room, in your house, in the place you like better than any other, your own place. The familiar house, the requisite rooms in which we have gathered the things we need, a good bed, a desk, a whole pile of books. The windows giving on to the sea and the garden with its apple trees and holly hedge, a beautiful garden, growing wild."

The first step in any trip or journey is always a footstep--the brave or curious act of putting one foot in front of the other and stepping out of the house onto the sidewalk below. Here, Espedal contemplates what this ambulatory mode of travel has meant for great artists and thinkers, including Rousseau, Kant, Hazlitt, Thoreau, Rimbaud, Whitman, Giacometti, and Robert Louis Stevenson. In the process, he confronts his own inability to write from a fixed abode and his refusal to banish the temptation to become permanently itinerant.

Lyrical and rebellious, immediate and sensuous, Tramp conveys Espedal's own need to explore on foot--in places as diverse as Wales and Turkey--and offers us the excitement and adventure of being a companion on his fascinating and intriguing travels.

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Tomas Espedal is the author of several novels and prose collections, including Bergeners, Against Art, Against Nature, and The Year, all published by Seagull Books. James Anderson's literary translations from Norwegian include several books by Tomas Espedal and Thorvald Steen.

Product details

Authors Tomas Espedal
Assisted by James Anderson (Translation)
Publisher Seagull Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.08.2022
 
EAN 9781803090306
ISBN 978-1-80309-030-6
No. of pages 322
Dimensions 125 mm x 202 mm x 19 mm
Weight 286 g
Series Seagull World Literature
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other Germanic linguistics / literary studies
Travel

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