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À l'écoute du silence
« On peut, comme moi, grimper sur des parois immenses, dormir en paix avec cinq cents mètres de vide sous les pieds, mais être saisie de vertige dans un centre commercial. Marcher des heures durant avec un lourd sac à dos mais échouer à suivre une conversation recouverte par les décibels d'une chanson. Se sentir inadaptée en société et entourée au coeur d'une forêt.« Mon programme des jours à venir est d'une simplicité élémentaire et d'une ambition démesurée. Me mettre à l'écoute et laisser place au bruissement de la vie naturelle. M'ensauvager quelque temps pour mieux revenir au monde. »
224 pages, Paperback
Published April 16, 2025
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August 20, 2025
Hibernation
Suggested Soundscape
In short, "Listening to the Silence" is about several episodes in the life of mountain climber Stéphanie Bodet in Le Carol (April 2021), Buoux (April 2018), Vaugines (March 2021 and January 2023), most of which deal with a fundamental need for profound peace.
During these stays in natural retreats, Stéphanie reacquaints herself with a rhythm more in keeping with the passing of seasons, the solar cycle, preserved from the drone of humdrum life. On the way, she meets Father Christian, chaplain of the Carthusian monastery of Le Reposoir, a widow renting a shoddy room to her in Finistère, the female leader of a collective in a TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone) on the Mourre Nègre, in Vaucluse...
In sum, this work deals with mountain climbing, how to pay attention to little things during your walks, gardening, inventing your own rhythms - what I call the creation of personal rites and heresies - the drawbacks and virtues of changing places be it geographically or personally...
See also:
NON-FICTION
Into the Wild
Ermites dans la Taïga
La Guerre du faux
Avec les fées
Sur les chemins noirs
FICTION
The Magic Mountain
Tango de Satan
Utsupan
Extension du domaine de la lutte
La Carte et le Territoire
Les Voyages du fils
Les Barbares
Таежный бродяга
Suggested Soundscape
In short, "Listening to the Silence" is about several episodes in the life of mountain climber Stéphanie Bodet in Le Carol (April 2021), Buoux (April 2018), Vaugines (March 2021 and January 2023), most of which deal with a fundamental need for profound peace.
During these stays in natural retreats, Stéphanie reacquaints herself with a rhythm more in keeping with the passing of seasons, the solar cycle, preserved from the drone of humdrum life. On the way, she meets Father Christian, chaplain of the Carthusian monastery of Le Reposoir, a widow renting a shoddy room to her in Finistère, the female leader of a collective in a TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone) on the Mourre Nègre, in Vaucluse...
In sum, this work deals with mountain climbing, how to pay attention to little things during your walks, gardening, inventing your own rhythms - what I call the creation of personal rites and heresies - the drawbacks and virtues of changing places be it geographically or personally...
See also:
NON-FICTION
Into the Wild
Ermites dans la Taïga
La Guerre du faux
Avec les fées
Sur les chemins noirs
FICTION
The Magic Mountain
Tango de Satan
Utsupan
Extension du domaine de la lutte
La Carte et le Territoire
Les Voyages du fils
Les Barbares
Таежный бродяга
July 21, 2025
Un baume . Beauté et ressourcement. Je vous le recommande
May 16, 2026
Le journal intime d’une retraite et plus largement t une réflexion philosophique sur le silence.
May 17, 2026
Émerveillement sur les petits riens
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews