There And Back

The child clutching a tiny suitcase, visiting relatives in a nearby village, the Hitler youth hiking with his backpack from youth hostel to youth hostel, the young soldier returning from war in ragged uniform, the man of literature touring distant and exotic locales – no matter the time or place, for Ludwig Harig travel and story-telling go together. The fourth volume of his collected works contains observations on proximity and distance, reflections on sitting, walking and flying, reports on literary quests and portraits of cities – all guiding the reader to sites of pleasure, sites of sorrow. For the writer, however, the greatest adventure is the telling of the tale...