The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton
GUIDE: Xavier du Maistre
There is a lovely cyclic structure in bringing the reader back to London, where the text began, just as a traveller must finally return home. This final chapter breaks the metred structure of the rest of the text with its pairs, making it an epilogue. The novel itself has already been finished as the writer draws together all of the places of his travels and re-perceives them through Ruskin’s lens. But there is still more to say.
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