Ordinary Journeys is perhaps a novel, perhaps a story.
of melancholy. A melancholy that would have found its herbarium. But a
melancholy as a point of passage, that of the being who passes, hyphen of
self to the other, whatever the times and places: it must also be said that
Melancholy is the happiness of having lived. Come and discover, behind a
gallery of ordinary and colorful characters, anonymous or not, from
Robert Burton to Tristan Tzara, from Etienne Gaspard Robertson to Giordano Bruno,
from Auguste Blanqui to Sei Shônagon or Pessoa, come and discover the loves of Léo,
former circus artist, the author's thoughts, some forgotten stories,
some animals, some trees, some insects and some flowers,
a few moments escaped from the melancholy of things or nibbled away by dreams:
Ordinary Journeys is all of these things at once.
