Friday, July 11, 2025

The Consolations of the Forest” by Sylvain Tesson

 This book describes French author Tesson’s experience of living alone in a cabin on the shore of Lake Baikal in Siberia for 6 months. I found it very slow going, but a lot of his imagery was beautiful, I liked the occasional Russian (Slavic) interactions, and some of his philosophical observations were profound. I was a bit saddened to read that he has strong right wing inclinations.

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