Set back from the world (1/2): Tales of cabins and shelters
Audio 48:30
The cabin deep in the woods is a solid American myth that has inspired the most beautiful tales but also travelers from all over the world.
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By: Céline Develay Mazurelle
52 min
More than any other, this year has proven to us that travel can also be still and interior.
Many traveling writers who, in their time, made the choice to withdraw from the world, to better observe it, tell it, reinvent it and resist it, have proven it to us ...
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For this first episode, we travel through tales of cabins and refuges, in the company of the great traveler Alexandra David-Néel, who spent nearly three years in a hermitage in Sikkim, of Henry David Thoreau retired in his cabin in Concord near the lake Walden whose book
Walden or life in the woods
continues to inspire free thinkers in love with nature, by Sylvain Tesson, the French travel writer isolated in his cabin in the Siberian forests in Paolo Rumiz, perched on a lighthouse in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, or the 13th century Japanese hermit Kamo No Chomei or the white Indian Gray Owl, a former Canadian trapper who became a great defender of nature and the natives at the start of the 20th century.
In this literary journey, between nature and solitude, the hut turns into a sanctuary, arch or temple.
It is there that as a child, one takes refuge far from the anger of the parents, that one also tastes the freedom and the first adventures.
Later, in adulthood, it allows us to reconnect with the living and the full nature that surrounds us, and allows interior, meditative, sometimes spiritual or mystical explorations.
So isolate yourself and settle down, the better to be reborn and resist.
“
As long as there are cabins deep in the woods, nothing will be completely lost
”, Sylvain Tesson.
A literary series in two episodes by Céline Develay-Mazurelle and Laure Allary, initially broadcast in May 2020.
Bibliography:
- Walden or life in the woods
by
Henry David Thoreau
(
Gallmeister editions
)
- One year hut
of
Olaf Condau
(
Editions Paulsen
)
-
The Lighthouse: motionless journey
of
Paolo Rumiz
(
Hoëbeke Publishing
)
-
stories from the abandoned cabin
of
Gray Owl
(
Editions Breaths
)
- Treatise on the solitary cabin
&
My life in the mountains
by
Antoine Marcel
(
Éditions Arléa
)
-
Notes from my monk hut
of
Kamo no Chōmei
(
Editions The time Noise
)
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Travel journal.
August 11, 1904 - December 27, 1917
by
Alexandra David-Néel
(Éditions Plon)
-
In the forests of Siberia
by
Sylvain Tesson
(
Éditions Gallimard
)
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My Life in the Appalachians
by
Thomas Rain Crowe
(
Libretto Editions
)
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La Vie en cabane, A short speech on frugality and the return to basics
by
David Lefèvre
(
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