First, the reasons that motivated them to do this walking tour: moon is practicing Catholic and therefore undertakes first for a theological experience, while the second hand about a whim without real philosophical or mystical expectation. Equality between the two stories: the pilgrimage is above all a personal journey in which everyone is faced especially what he does not sattendait.
Then how to tell the experience is quite different. Where the narrative is exposed very academically in a literary style instead argued (I recall that Jean-Christophe Rufin is a member of French Academy) with humor and with a tip, Alix de Saint-André mania to perfection humor, auto-derision Thus the pilgrim desecrates his quest. In this second case, the story is much more palatable, the story resembling a soap opera more intelligently transcribes the experience of the author. Alix advantage dune but very short head.
Overall I would say that to enjoy lun should read other. Two different experiments, two complementary points of view, two literary styles are the qualities that even if i a slight preference for the novel Dalix Saint André, Jean-Christophe Rufin offers us a novel full of feelings that remains readable.
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