by Sylvain Tesson · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070463398
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«S'abandonner à vivre» is a collection of short stories by Sylvain Tesson, published by Gallimard in 2015, in paperback (238 pages, in French).
Nineteen stories in which Tesson presents characters who, when fate strikes, decide not to resist and let themselves be carried away: sailors, lovers, warriors, artists or travellers. The settings range from Paris, Zermatt or Riga to Afghanistan, Yakutia or the Sahara.
The French edition belongs to Gallimard's Folio collection; the original text was published in 2014.
For readers interested in short fiction and in travel and adventure narrative, and for those who already know the work of Sylvain Tesson.
Sylvain Tesson is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are The Consolations of the Forest (2011), about a project to live alone in a Siberian cabin for six months and The Art of Patience (2019), about the quest for snow leopards in Tibet. For the latter book, he received the Prix Renaudot.
