The Way of the World : Two men in a car from Geneva to the by Nicolas Bouvier

The Way of the World : Two men in a car from Geneva to the by Nicolas Bouvier

By Nicolas Bouvier

The way in which of the realm, a cult vintage, is the beguiling story of an impecunious and life-enhancing trip from Geneva to the Khyber go within the '50s. whilst Nicolas Bouvier and the artist Thierry Vernet set out, that they had funds for 4 months and a robust Fiat Topolino. They broke their trip while funds ran low, to educate and promote work and articles in Istanbul, Tabriz and finally in Quetta. Gravitating in the direction of the poorer neighbourhoods, they spent intoxicating nights hearing gypsy musicians, buying and selling poetry with Iranian tramps and pleasing their fellow drinkers with songs and an accordion. the best way of the realm can be a trip in the direction of the self. 'You imagine you make a trip,' writes Bouvier, 'but quickly it really is making you - or unmaking you.'

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It had to be a flourishing civilisation to speak about women in that tone of mystery. With its tanned daughters, its fresh starched linen, its cows out to pasture and the neighbouring gypsies as leaven in the dough, peasant-Bogojevo had plenty to be pleased about. Around midday we went back to the cabin by the bridge, where two of the previous evening’s virtuosi were waiting to take us to the encampment. They were 18 A Scent of Melons sitting, fresh as daisies, beside an old Hungarian peasant to whom they were trying to flog a horse.

I had plenty of time to think about it at night, battling with the fleas. They devoured me. I saw them everywhere in town: the grocer leaned over to slice the cheese… a flea came out of his shirt, crawled over his chin without his flinching, travelled across his Adam’s apple and disappeared into the flannel. If I lost sight of it for a moment, I just had to be resigned: that flea was for me. In the evening, turning back the sheet, a red dust cloud flew towards my face; neither DDT nor lashings of water had any effect.

The pastor had studied in Zurich and seemed to have all his wits about him, or as many as necessary, but age, solitude and the exercise of a barely tolerated ministry had made him more fearful than a cockroach. He had several Methodist families in Prilep and half a dozen others scattered through Kosovo. We asked him about his parish, larger than a province, but couldn’t get anything out of him other than a weary allusion to Sodom and Gomorrah. I wondered whether his competitors fared any better in gathering souls: the Orthodox priest who prudently scrubbed his sermons and paid his Party dues; the Muslim imam who took snuff with the faithful on his doorstep in the evening, cultivating a faith thinned by exile; and the Marxists with their choir, youth group and the new swimming pool, who won recruits without too much difficulty.

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