Can we completely detach ourselves from the world of men? Leaving the city and its daily life to go live at the end of the world, such is the challenge that Sylvain Tesson has set himself. From February to July 2010, the travel writer chose to experience the end of winter and then the Siberian spring. Living alone in a hut on the shores of Lake Baikal, he bowed to silence by choosing to live slowly, surrounded by books, vodka and memories. Without disturbing nature but questioning himself with it in a long-term introspection, Tesson walked, explored, fished, he ice-skated on the lake and accepted the hospitality of his few neighbours. This asceticism of six months away from France, the author told the story in his famous book published by Gallimard in 2011. By a subtle and generous drawing all in color, Virgile Dureuil proposes for the first time an adaptation in tape drawn…

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"Pretty soon, I realized that I was not going to be able to do much to change the world. So I promised myself to settle down for a while, alone, in a cabin. In the forests of Siberia. I I acquired a wooden izba, far from everything, on the shores of Lake Baikal. There, for six months, five days' walk from the first village, lost in an excessive nature, I tried to live in slowness and simplicity. I think I've succeeded. Two dogs, a wood-burning stove, an open window on a lake are enough to..."