“Pissing in the streams,” by Serge Hastom: on the roads of France and Russia
The writer publishes his "very independent reporting notebooks." SERGE HASTOM
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Review The journalist and writer publishes the travel diaries of his three road trips – in Russia, the United States and France – all published in "Le Nouvel Obs" in shortened versions. A book on the world at human height ★★★☆☆
Serge Hastom, 30, is a rather original guy to, in the middle of the Ukrainian war, go alone across Putin's Russia for three months, to chat with moving babushkas, drunken Wagner soldiers and isolated Old Believers in the Far East. But he can also crisscross Trumpist America from the Mexican border to Chicago. Or take a grand tour of France in a small Fiat during the famous summer of dissolution and the Olympics. From these three long-distance wanderings, this punk Nicolas Bouvier brought back extraordinary travel diaries, both funny and tragic, which "Le Nouvel Obs" was proud to publish. Hastom brings them together here in considerably expanded versions, where his unblinkered curiosity and his cleverly disheveled style create sparks on every page. A true book of true literature, always at human height, "written without hatred in a world without peace" , which tells of the many ways in which people struggle to inhabit this cursed planet.
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