A Walking Life by Antonia Malchik

Author:Antonia Malchik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2019-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

MODERN ITERATIONS OF what might be called pop-culture pilgrimage seem humdrum when compared to the Mount Kailash circuit or walking the Camino de Santiago, but there remains something in them that connects us to those more ancient and spiritual journeys. A trip to Liverpool to see the homes and early venues of the Beatles. A journey to Elvis’s Graceland. The homes of innumerable authors beloved as long as literature has existed. I myself have traveled to Bath in England just to walk the streets of the city that Jane Austen reportedly hated, but that formed the background of some of the most famous scenes in her novels: Anne Elliot’s final stroll with Captain Wentworth after the lovers spent eight years nursing misunderstood broken hearts, Catherine Morland’s walk out to the countryside to learn an appreciation for both reading and the picturesque in the company of Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor. I’ve paced the Spanish Steps in Rome, near where John Keats rattled his last breaths, and wandered the gardens of Newstead Abbey, Lord Byron’s ancestral home. I’ve trodden the beaten, scraggly paths of Peredelkino, the artist’s colony outside Moscow where Boris Pasternak walked and talked and contemplated, so many times that it almost feels like a second home. And I’ve spent much of my life roaming the lanes and bridges of St. Petersburg that fed Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ample imagination, seeking something of that Russian fatalism and yearning for truth that come through so clearly in his novels.

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