The Book Of Flights; An Adventure Story
A France, Literature, Cultural book. The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who...
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- Pages: 319 pages
- ISBN: 9780224005838 / 224005839
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The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things are precisely what language does not speak about. Language is a natural act which implies belonging. He who exists, speaks. He who does not speak, does not exist. He has no place in the world. The Huichol language is Huichol to the same degree as the Huichol earth, the Huichol sky, religion, tattooing, dress, the peyoteros' hat. It is not enough to pronounce the syllables of the Huichol language to be Huichol. That is obvious. Jean-Marie G. Le Clzio,... I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs dying along the Cholula road, or to have seen the eyes of the lepers at Chiengmai gave me the right to talk about it. To have seen! To have been there! Rubbish! The world is not a book, it proves nothing. The spaces one has crossed were dark corridors with closed doors. The faces of the women to whom one gave oneself up completely: did they speak for anyone but themselves? The cities of man are secret. One walks along their streets, one sees... All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the quivering air, like gelatine, the sounds trace their bubble paths. Can you imagine that? Jean-Marie G. Le Clzio, The Book of Flights //
I sipped from this book over a 5-year period, a few pages here, 50 pages there, and recently finished it. Sad it's over. Seeing the world through Hogan/JMG's eyes has changed the way that I see the world, and hearing his thoughts have made help me to articulate my own. The flights of The Book of Flights then are flights away from stillness and the everyday. There are literal flights from cities; but also flights of thought, imagination and desire. Le Clezio, we are reminded at every angry interruption, every narrative thread left dangling, is both bored and disgusted by contemporary life, by the mindlessness... It is written in the same style as Le proces-verbal, only more so; the main character is not really even a character, more of a moving point of view, there are no events at all, and the book is punctuated by short chapters called "autocritiques" in which the author tells you that he can't really write and how terrible the book is. It...
