The Way of the Void and the Wind

In this collection full of finesse and restrained elegance, the Scottish essayist and poet Kenneth White, creator of the notion of geopoetics, takes us from shore to shore, through Scandinavia, the Balkans, Germany, France, the Netherlands, New York, Vancouver, Montreal, Japan, China... which he evokes or tells in a handful of chosen words, as one chants haikus. The designer Patrice Reytier took over these wanderings: he gave them a form, padded or rainy; one color, navy, sanguine; a vibration inhabited by the spirit of the clear line. For each landscape, each route, each halt, a single page and a sober construction in three images, in the style of comic strips, like so many rigorously chiseled miniatures. Fragmentary and bohemian, a little shamanic too, these snapshots are as much the reflection of a geography as of a mental landscape, dreamed perhaps. They draw a path of wisdom, full of humility: the latest avatar to date the work of a great author. _______________ Readers loved it! "It's refined, it's poetic, it's light, it's beautiful, and it starts in Scotland!" EosMayonnaise on Babelio "I loved this reading experience, which seemed to me like a timeless parenthesis in my day, and which made me travel the time of my reading." Chinouk on Babelio "Patrice Reynier works on the relationship between text and image, shells his drawings in weightlessness, distills a floating thought" Franz on Babelio A collection of quiet wanderings that borrows the narrative form of the strip, over the nomadic inspiration of a great author of today.