Abstract: In Cheminsd'eau, Jean Rolin undertakes a capricious narrative: it is a journey of slowness open to the ordinary and the banal. But this representation of the common world, which is part of a contemporary evolution of literary travel, is done book in hand: this crossing along the water is also a crossing along the library. However, this representation of the world of barges and waterways leads him to a vigilant attention to animal forms in order to carry out a political reflection.
