Can we detach ourselves completely from the world of men? Leaving the city and its daily life to go and live at the end of the world, this is the challenge that Sylvain Tesson has given itself. From February to July 2010, the traveler writer chose to live the end of winter and then the Siberian spring. Living alone a cabin by the Baikal lake, he folded silently by choosing to live slowly, surrounded by books, vodka and memories. Without disturbing nature but by wondering with it in a long -term introspection, Tesson walked, explored, fished, he made ice skate on the lake and accepted the hospitality of his rare neighbors. This six -month asceticism far from France, the author made it the story in his famous book published by Gallimard in 2011 . By a subtle and generous drawing all in color, Virgile Dureuil offers for the first time an adaptation in comics…

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"Enough early, I understood that I was not going to be able to do much to change the world. I then promised to settle for some time, alone, in a cabin. In the forests of Siberia. I I have acquired an isba of wood, far from everything, on the banks of Lake Baikal. There, for six months, five days of walking from the first village, lost in an excessive nature, I tried to live in slowness and Simplicity. I think I have succeeded. Two dogs, a wood stove, a window open to a lake are enough to ... "