Sentimental passenger
When American writer Jack Kerouac started translating his novel On the road to the Basque, the translator Iñigo Roque did the following: “I blindly spoke to Beribilez de Jean Etxepare for the instrumentation of language, knowing that there is always something learned in it, and I did not make the mistake.” He is now on the street on the road, and we have the opportunity to read Beribilez de Etxepare as well. If we were supermarkets, offer: 2x1. As here we discuss books that are not new, we will unveil the first edition that dates back to 1931.
The 1987 edition brings a crude preamble from Mari Jose Kerejeta, and that is why it is very interesting – although I do not agree with some things –: “Doctor Etchepare is not a Paul Morand”, well, it is much simpler, as it is simpler compared to our French literature. It detects a kind of regression, “as a marked Catholic accent, which is a bit removed from the attitude of some article of its youth, or as a depositary of its marked patriotism and its old traditions.” And he ends by saying that this book is “at the lowest level of his literary wager.”
Come on, come on, slowly. All right, it is true that we read in his day and commented at this time that Buruxka loses the puntxa compared to Beribilez, but, always positive, we will also find interesting things. In one day, as we drive through Cambo-Cambo, 357 kilometers in total, we will be shown in favor of progress, worried about the future of forests, reminder of community work, reminder of tourism in Madrid – and that didn’t happen through Hondarribia. It is true that above others there are descriptions of landscapes, even exaggeration: “In the part of here, the two who have seen us say that the sky of the Provence region is gray.” And what brings the landscape to life? Certainly, men and women. That's what the book lacks.
Kerejeta quotes in his foreword Laurence Sterne, his book A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. And he says that when the classification of passenger models was outlined as a joke, he gave himself the name of: “Sentimental passenger.” The appointment for Jean Etxepare could be valid, without being Morand, without being Sterne – he did speak of men and women, especially women. But a sentimental traveler. Knowing, moreover, that there are always things to learn in Etxeberria.
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