Immortal Journey
by (france) Jean-christophe Lufen
About This Novel
The founder of "Doctors Without Borders" and an academician of the French Academy embarked on a 900-kilometer walking pilgrimage. It is not about religious piety, but about forgetfulness, the spiritual "pilgrimage" of forgetting the constraints of daily life, forgetting the fatigue and bad weather of long distances, forgetting industrialization and material scarcity. Santiago de Compostela (Spanish: Santiago de Compostela; meaning "Santiago of the Starry Fields") is the capital of the Galician Autonomous Region in Spain, with a population of less than 100,000. According to legend, James, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, is buried here and is one of the Catholic pilgrimage destinations. Since the Middle Ages, pilgrims have come here in an endless stream, and even formed a famous pilgrimage road, the Way of St. James. In 2011, after leaving his post as ambassador, Jean-Christophe Luffin decided to embark on a journey to Santiago. "Immortal Journey" is a true record of Lu Fen's pilgrimage. The humorous, self-deprecating and emotional writing style shows not only the basic common sense of pilgrimage, but also the magnificent scenery, interesting things along the way, portraits of unexpected characters, and even the boundless thoughts of a lonely walker between heaven and earth.
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