![]() ![]() There is even a separate branch of psychology which describes them – travel psychology. The author describes the world of contemporary b ieguni, permanent travellers who keep their products in small packages, like travel-size cosmetics, folding toothbrushes, disposable slippers, their own diseases, associated with changes in time, their own language: simple, functionalised English. Tokarczuk writes that she met contemporary bieguni (the members of the sect), survivors of this sect, who travel on the Moscow subway continuously. In order to escape from the devil, we have to move all the time. The title of the book refers to the name of an eighteenth-century Russian sect, whose members believed that the world is the work of Satan, and when we stop, Satan has the easiest access to us. The axis around which the author has built the book is not a character or a story, but a phenomenon of traveling. According to the author, tourism has become a modern way of satisfying a very old, atavistic, nomadic drive. The novel Los errantes, as reads the title of the Spanish translation, has been published by the Anagrama publishing house in Barcelona.įlights is a literary monograph on the phenomenon of mobility, movement, and travel anxiety. ![]()
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