The great reading journey begins with Don Quixote, Moby Dick and Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot – and then we’re really off.
This reading companion is an adventurer: He travels with us through time back to the epic of Gilgamesh and Medieval legends, and once all around the world. He is a seducer who extols his favorite books to us – not just the classics, but also detective stories and young adult books. And he is a friend who warns us against books that are a waste of our time. And he never forgets poetry! Above all, however, he is a brilliant storyteller. He tells wonderful anecdotes; praises, censures and jokes; and explains what parallels there are in music and the visual arts.
By the end of the journey, we haven’t just gained new experiences and stories; we also hold in our hands a substantiated list of recommendations of some 1,500 works and a universal history of literature. And we’re ready to set right back out again – though never without our reading companion…
