You are flying to another meeting and you have done your homework and read all the exciting deliverables and progress reports. You feel tired, but not sleepy.
You may read “The Art of Travel” (Alain de Botton[1]). It crosses today’s traveling with the adventurous journeys of Flaubert, Humboldt, Woodsworth, Van Gogh and Ruskin. It is interesting and inspirational, but far from the more disturbed and vivid travel writings of Jack Kerouac[2] or Ryszard Kapuściński[3].
Want to stay really awake? Let me suggest some authors whose short-stories and tales, likely to be more compatible with your journey, will grow your sensibility to cross cultural nuances, make you laugh, keep you duly oxygenated and less tired on arrival: Giovanni Boccacio[4], Franco Sacchetti[5], Dino Buzzati[6], Francisco de Quevedo[7], Mor Jokai[8], Machado de Assis[9], Millôr Fernandes[10], Witold Gombrowicz[11], Isaac Leib Peretz[12], Alphonse Allais[13], Karel Capek[14] and Arkadi Averchenko[15].
You may read “The Art of Travel” (Alain de Botton[1]). It crosses today’s traveling with the adventurous journeys of Flaubert, Humboldt, Woodsworth, Van Gogh and Ruskin. It is interesting and inspirational, but far from the more disturbed and vivid travel writings of Jack Kerouac[2] or Ryszard Kapuściński[3].
Want to stay really awake? Let me suggest some authors whose short-stories and tales, likely to be more compatible with your journey, will grow your sensibility to cross cultural nuances, make you laugh, keep you duly oxygenated and less tired on arrival: Giovanni Boccacio[4], Franco Sacchetti[5], Dino Buzzati[6], Francisco de Quevedo[7], Mor Jokai[8], Machado de Assis[9], Millôr Fernandes[10], Witold Gombrowicz[11], Isaac Leib Peretz[12], Alphonse Allais[13], Karel Capek[14] and Arkadi Averchenko[15].
Some of them are being much undeservedly forgotten, so it is next to impossible to find them at the airport shops. It is better that you look up for them in your favorite bookshop.
[1] http://www.alaindebotton.com/
[2] http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/kerouac.html
[3] http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_kapuscinski_ryszard
[4] http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/boccaccio/index.shtml
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Sacchetti
[6] http://www.geocities.com/athens/delphi/8892/indexe.html
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Quevedo
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3r_J%C3%B3kai
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machado_de_Assis
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill%C3%B4r_Fernandes
[11] http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_gombrowicz_witold
[12] http://www.enotes.com/salem-lit/bontsha-silent
[13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Allais
[14] http://capek.misto.cz/english/
[15] http://russia.rin.ru/guides_e/5501.html
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