The other is a klatch of aristocrats and intellectuals who frequent a salon hosted by the beautiful Sophie Gottlieb. The first is a group of tramps led by a shabby organ grinder, who meet in a cave to drink and wax philosophical on life’s challenges.
The eponymous traveler falls in with two very different, but equally entertaining crowds. It’s not the unusual layout that holds Hans back, however, but the people. The streets of the little village have a peculiar, shifting quality that makes getting around difficult. Set in the early 19th century, the story follows Hans, an itinerant philologist who stumbles into the German town of Wandernburg and finds it harder to leave than he expected. “Traveler of the Century” by Andres NeumanĪrgentinean-born author Andrés Neuman has been racking up accolades in his adopted Spain since the tender age of 22, and “Traveler of the Century,” the first of his novels to be translated into English, reveals why the late Roberto Bolaño described the young writer as being “touched by grace.”
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