“Madrid-Stockholm”, that short verse from Prose du Transsibérien, cancels out the thousands of kilometers forming the diagonal line connecting these two geographical points: a concrete and metaphorical space, the suggested straight line has transported the author, who decided to experience it on a bike, before transforming it into a literary “escape” with the explicit title La Diagonale du Fou (2013).
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques