The aftermath of the trip

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By: Céline Develay Mazurelle

They say tomorrows that they sing or that they are party. It is also said that they can be beautiful or uncertain. Perhaps it is this last adjective “uncertain” that best qualifies to date, “the aftermath of the trip” on which we will focus this week. Because this reflection opens, frankly, many more questions than answers ...

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Indeed, how are we going to travel the world tomorrow, curiosity slung? How are we going to go with the wind in the wind, to meet and in contact with others? How will the rest of the world be redefined, at a time when the borders are being redrawn to better close? What will our French, Italian, European or Malian identities say about us? What sense should we also give to our freedom of movement in these times of pandemic, reduced mobility and distant horizons?

This week, to feed our reflection, we decided to call upon, literally and figuratively, two renowned traveling writers:

- the Italian Paolo Rumiz, author of numerous travel stories published in the world. Recently, he went on a trip through the Benedictine monasteries of Europe and even more recently, he wrote a confinement journal published in the Italian daily La Repubblica.

- Frenchman Jean-Yves Loude, nomadic writer specializing in the Portuguese-speaking world, author of numerous travel accounts published by Actes Sud. For almost 30 years, with his wife and traveling companion, Viviane Lièvre, he has been on a quest to find the murdered memories of Africa. Soon, out in pocket in France, his book "The King of Africa and the Queen Sea" on Abu Bakari II, sovereign navigator of the former Empire of Mali who, before Christopher Columbus, would have gone to see in 1312, what there was on the other side of "the great sea," the Atlantic Ocean, with nearly 2,000 canoes. A journey from which he will not return, but which still today arouses all passions and questions.

Find out more:
- On Jean-Yves Loude and Viviane Lièvre
- On Paolo Rumiz's confinement journal published in La Repubblica (in Italian)

Bibliography:
- Il filo infinito. Paolo Rumiz. 2019. Éditions Feltrinelli (still not translated into French)
- The legend of the mountains that navigate . Paolo Rumiz. 2017. Éditions Arthaud
-Appia. Paolo Rumiz. 2016. Éditions Arthaud
- The King of Africa and the Queen Sea . Jean-Yves Loude. With Viviane Lièvre and Momar Tala Ndiaye. 2020. Éditions Babel Actes Sud Poche
- 36 stories to entertain the children of an artist . Francisco de Lacerda. CD book with texts by Jean-Yves Loude. Illustrations by Pierre Pratt. Performed on the piano by Elisabeth Van Straaten. Éditions Fabula Urbis
- A freighter for the Azores . Jean-Yves Loude. 2018. Editions Actes Sud.

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