Max Egremont
Duchy Originals
A Journey to Nowhere: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland
By Jean-Paul Kauffmann (Translated by Euan Cameron)
MacLehose Press 269pp £18.99 order from our bookshop
It may seem strange to travel where there’s not much to see and even odder to choose a place that doesn’t exist. But in this book by the French writer Jean-Paul Kauffmann, interior monologue is as important as the journey or destination. Kauffmann seeks obscurity, remoteness and the absence of other tourists: the opposite of Italy, his ideal of culture and beauty.
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