Creo en la historia de mis pasos (2020)

Title: Creo en la historia de mis pasos / Publisher: Seix Barral / City: Buenos Aires / Year: 2020

Known in English as travelling fugue, a sort of traveling fugue that encourages walking, dromomania is the excessive inclination to move from one place to another. Enthralled by Robert Walser’s novel The Walk, Esteban Feune de Colombi turned it into a play on foot and for years has been traveling the world interpreting the delight of his temperament.

Travel as a vital current, the curious spirit and the inscription of the walk turned into art are the germ of these texts. Among many of his experiences, the Mexican desert in search of peyote; the reverberation of Borges’ presence in Iceland; the Tangiers of Paul and Jenny Bowles and today’s Tangiers, still elusive; the most expensive tea in the world and the majesty of Darjeeling as a new perception of time; the classic rituals of the Bajo porteño; the beautiful voices of the streets of Havana; the walk along the mythical Tokaido route, key during feudal Japan and forgotten today.

Creo en la historia de mis pasos presents the challenge of shedding prejudices to apprehend the cultural, ethnographic and poetic in animals, music and characters that departed from the western and urban and inhabited those territories. In constant dialogue with legendary travelers such as Hamish Fulton or Werner Herzog, the journey is at times adventure and rediscovery, search or pilgrimage. Without intending to, Feune de Colombi succeeds in these joyful texts to make us travel with him.