Ulysses
Travel with a book under your arm keeps you company.
A book read in solitude allows you to travel in the labirinths of imagination.
But a book about a “life journey” can be initiating.
Ulysses in the Odissey, Marco Polo in Il Milione, Dante in the Divina Commedia, Jack Kerouac on his road 66 or Santiago in the Alchimist are all looking for something that they will get just through experience, through a passage in life, through some kind of initiation. And reading their stories the reader is led to follow the same journey to learn the same things and even more.
Characters as Ulysses testify that the interest of the topos of travel will never lose its appeal both for writers and readers. They follow a journey and “on the road” they add their own way of feeling and learning giving to each literary voyage every time a different perspective that renews each time its initiating power.
