Journey to the Land of the Real
ISBN-13: 9780993148712
Author(s): Victor Segalen
Subjects: WTL
Publisher: Atlas Press
Publisher Imprint: Atlas Press
Publication Date: 08-11-2016
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£12.50
About the book
Victor Segalen (1878-1919) was a doctor, a traveller (principally in Polynesia and China), and above all else, a great poet. An admirer especially of Gauguin and Rimbaud, the journey undertaken in this, his last and most important work, is that between the imagined and the real: 'neither a poem about a journey, nor the travel diary of a wanderer's dream'. Journey to the Land of the Real is the summation of the author's life as both traveller and poet, and a summation that is all the more surprising since he could know nothing of his imminent and mysterious death.