Le Guide Impossibili
5560 Argovia & Brisgovia
Viaggio di qua e di là dal Reno in compagnia di due esimii scrittori
Edited by Gianni Guadalupi. Texts by Victor Hugo, Alfred Michiels
1989 / 214 PAGES.
Language: Italian
The Black Forest and Swiss valleys surrounding the course of the Rhine, travelled over and described by an ironic Victor Hugo and other Romantic walkers.
The versatile and roaring Victor Hugo wrote some fascinating travel books, including Le Rhin, from which these amusing pages are taken. Likewise, historian and writer on art Alfred Michiels proves an idyllic and bucolic wanderer in his stories published in serial form in “Tour du Monde” (1867). A dreamlike Switzerland nestled between Tarot Land and Ruritania, between GlassBridge and Nexdorea, told in an excellent example of literary bavardage. Romantic landscapes, fabulous and mythicized places. The impossible guidebooks make an unexpected foray into the heart of civilised Europe that might represent a shock for readers.