On the road with Bashô: novel by Dany Laferrière
On the road with Bashô: novel by Dany Laferrière
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So I traveled the world to remember only these flickering images like grains of dust dancing in the morning light.
At first glance, we don't see the connection between the author of The Riddle of Return and the Japanese poet. Especially since they were born a few centuries apart. We wonder how they will manage to travel together. What do they have to say to each other? If Bashô makes the landscape speak, Laferrière questions faces. What connects them is first of all the fact of being islanders, of knowing how to dance on a trembling earth and this immoderate taste for tiny things. Bashô is a contemplative who does not hesitate to cross Japan to go see a sunset, while Laferrière's universe is chaotic, urban and oppressive. He has already claimed that he is a Japanese writer. It is not surprising then that between Kerouac, with whom he shares a speedy America, and Bashô, who goes like a snail along the narrow paths of northern Japan, he chose to travel with Bashô.
At first glance, we don't see the connection between the author of The Riddle of Return and the Japanese poet. Especially since they were born a few centuries apart. We wonder how they will manage to travel together. What do they have to say to each other? If Bashô makes the landscape speak, Laferrière questions faces. What connects them is first of all the fact of being islanders, of knowing how to dance on a trembling earth and this immoderate taste for tiny things. Bashô is a contemplative who does not hesitate to cross Japan to go see a sunset, while Laferrière's universe is chaotic, urban and oppressive. He has already claimed that he is a Japanese writer. It is not surprising then that between Kerouac, with whom he shares a speedy America, and Bashô, who goes like a snail along the narrow paths of northern Japan, he chose to travel with Bashô.
