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The way of the world

The Way of the World, a cult classic, is the beguiling tale of an impecunious and life-enhancing journey from Geneva to the Khyber Pass in the '50s. When Nicolas Bouvier and the artist Thierry Vernet set out, they had money for four months and a sturdy Fiat Topolino. They broke their journey when money ran low, to teach and sell paintings and articles in Istanbul, Tabriz and eventually in Quetta. Gravitating towards the poorer neighbourhoods, they spent intoxicating nights listening to gypsy musicians, trading poetry with Iranian tramps and entertaining their fellow drinkers with songs and an.

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  • "1963 erschien ""L''Usage du monde"" (""Die Erfahrung der Welt""), das Erstlingswerk des Genfer Schriftstellers und Fotografen Nicolas Bouvier. Das Buch gehört heute zu den Klassikern der modernen Reiseliteratur. Der Text ist das Ergebnis einer fast zweijährigen Reise, die Nicolas Bouvier mit dem Maler Thierry Vernet 1953/54 unternahm. Die beiden Freunde fahren mit einem Fiat Topolino ""in sehr gemächlichem Tempo"" via Balkan, Türkei und Iran nach Afghanistan. Sie nehmen sich viel Zeit für die Entdeckung eines sowohl archaisch wie surreal anmutenden Kulturraums, wobei ihre Erfahrungen und Begeg."
  • "June 1953, Nicolas Bouvier and an artist friend set off in an old Fiat Topolino and very gradually worked their away across Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan. Bouvier made notes; in Baluchistan they disappeared; it didn't matter; he remembered everything. Ten years later he published L 'Usage du Monde, which quickly became a cult travel bible in France, and was subsequently translated into a number of European languages. It is now available."
  • "In English for the first time. The Way of the World is an elegant and quietly knowing account of eighteen months spent in towns and countrysides where foreign visitors were not so often seen as they are today. Bouvier's abilities at description rank with the best; he favors the small incident, the fleeting encounter, the telling gesture above the dramatic and exotic. The Way of the World is a fine and nuanced account of one culture confronting another, and like the best."
  • """Un voyage se passe de motifs. Il ne tarde pas à prouver qu'il se suffit à lui-même. On croit qu'on va faire un voyage, mais bientôt c'est le voyage qui vous fait, ou vous défait." Sa lente et heureuse dérive dans les années 1953-1954 entre Genève et le Khyber Pass en compagnie du peintre Thierry Vernet a inspiré ce livre d'un flâneur émerveillé à Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998), "un voyageur d'une espèce rare, comme Segalen et Michaux" (Jacques Meunier)."--Page 4 of cover."
  • ""Belgrade. "Midnight was chiming when I stopped the car in front of the Cafe Majestic. A friendly silence reigned over the still warm street. Through the lacy curtains I saw Thierry sitting inside. He had drawn a life-size pumpkin on the tablecloth and was killing time filling in the pips ... I gazed through the window for a long time before joining him at the table. We clinked glasses. I was happy to see this old project taking shape, and he to have a companion." In."
  • "Travel writing, reflects convincingly on the meaning of the experience."
  • "Der Text ist das Ergebnis einer fast zweijährigen Reise, die Nicolas Bouvier mit dem Maler Thierry Vernet 1953/54 unternahm. Die beiden Freunde fahren mit einem Fiat Topolino "in sehr gemächlichem Tempo" via Balkan, Türkei und Iran nach Afghanistan. Sie nehmen sich viel Zeit für die Entdeckung eines sowohl archaisch wie surreal anmutenden Kulturraums, wobei ihre Erfahrungen und Begegnungen mitunter an ein tragikomisches Welttheater erinnern. So wie sich dieses "langsame Reisen" an die Fremde herantastet, erkundet der Autor geduldig die Welt der Sprache, indem er den Reichtum der Dinge mit demjenigen der Worte zu verbinden versucht. Dabei entstehen atmosphärisch eindringliche Beschreibungen und farbige Porträts, durchdrungen von einem melancholischen Humor. Dieser Ausgabe beigegeben sind auch Fotografien, die während der Fahrt entstanden. Ihre ungewöhnliche Qualität macht das Buch von Nicolas Bouvier - eine Art schweizerischer Bruce Chatwin - zusätzlich zu einem Ereignis."
  • "In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook they would reach their destination, and that there would be unanticipated adventures, curious companionship, and sudden illumination along the way. The Way of the World, which Bouvier fashioned over the course of many years from his journals, is an entrancing story of adventure, an extraordinary work of art, and a voyage of self-discovery on the order of Robert M. Pirsig' Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. A Cult Classic, "The Way of the World" is one of the most beguiling travel books ever written. Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, it tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s. On one level it is a candid description of a road journey, on another a meditation on travel as a journey towards the self, all written by a sage with a golden pen and a wide infectious smile. It is published here for the first time in English with the Vernet drawings which are such a dynamic part of its whole."
  • "Récit d'un voyage improbable, infaisable, vers la Yougoslavie, la Grèce, la Turquie, l'Iran, l'Afghanistan, le Pakistan... et qui pourtant aura lieu de juin 1953 à décembre 1954 pour deux compagnons, N. Bouvier et T. Vernet."
  • ""L'usage du monde est le récit d'un voyage qui dura dix-sept mois, au début des années 1950 de Yougoslavie à l'Afghanistan. Depuis trente-cinq ans il ne cesse d'inspirer d'innombrables écrivains-voyageurs. La délicate préface d'Alain Dufour, l'ami éditeur, nous fait assister à la genèse et à la composition du chef-d'oeuvre de Nicolas Bouvier, alors qu'un choix de lettres et de reproductions illustre l'amitié de l'écrivain et du peintre vagabonds de par le monde. En l'honneur du 75e anniversaire de sa création, la Librairie Droz réédite à l'identique l'édition originale qu'elle a publiée en 1963, avec tous les dessins de Thierry Vernet."
  • "In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook they would reach their destination, and that there would be unanticipated adventures, curious companionship, and sudden illumination along the way. The Way of the World, which Bouvier fashioned over the course of many years from his journals, is an entrancing story of adventure, an extraordinary work of art, and a voyage of self-discovery on the order of Robert M. Pirsig' Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. A Cult Classic, "The Way of the World" is one of the most beguiling travel books ever written. Reborn from the ashes of a Pakistan rubbish heap, it tells of a friendship between a writer and an artist, forged on an impecunious, life-enhancing journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 1950s. On one level it is a candid description of a road journey, on another a meditation on travel as a journey towards the self, all written by a sage with a golden pen and a wide infectious smile."
  • "The Way of the World, a cult classic, is the beguiling tale of an impecunious and life-enhancing journey from Geneva to the Khyber Pass in the '50s. When Nicolas Bouvier and the artist Thierry Vernet set out, they had money for four months and a sturdy Fiat Topolino. They broke their journey when money ran low, to teach and sell paintings and articles in Istanbul, Tabriz and eventually in Quetta. Gravitating towards the poorer neighbourhoods, they spent intoxicating nights listening to gypsy musicians, trading poetry with Iranian tramps and entertaining their fellow drinkers with songs and an."@en

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  • "Proza szwajcarska w języku francuskim"
  • "Proza szwajcarska w języku francuskim"@pl
  • "Reisebericht 1953-1954"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "L'Usage du monde : récit"
  • "L'usage du monde : récit"
  • "L'usage du monde : Rècit"
  • "L' usage du monde : récit"
  • "L'usage de monde"
  • "L'usage du monde; recit"
  • "L'usage du monde"
  • "The way of the world"
  • "The way of the world"@en
  • "Uporaba sveta"@sl
  • "Uporaba sveta"
  • "L'usage du monde : (Voyage)"
  • "Die Erfahrung der Welt"
  • "Oswajanie świata"
  • "Oswajanie świata"@pl
  • "L'Usage du monde"
  • "L'usage du monde : recit"
  • "Los caminos del mundo : viaje desde Yugoslavia hasta la frontera con la India"
  • "Los caminos del mundo : viaje desde Yugoslavia hasta la frontera con la India"@es
  • "L'usage du monde récit"
  • "Los Caminos del mundo : viaje desde Yugoslavia hasta la frontera con la India"
  • "La polvere del mondo"
  • "La polvere del mondo"@it

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