Mengapa mengembara

Setiap orang yang mengalami pengembaraan akan memiliki alasan-alasan awal tersendiri. Di samping itu, apa yang diperolehnya pun, akan berbeda buat masing-masing individu.
Mengembara berarti menjadi saksi mata.
Pulang perjalanan dari Bengkulu, sebuah berita koran menarik pandanganku.


Le Clezio, seorang pengembara Perancis, memperoleh hadiah Nobel Sastra.

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"He's a gentle writer," says his biographer, Jennifer Waelti-Walters. "He never became one of those trendy French writers that the French all read, but [he was] always present in the literary mileau."
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For Le Clezio, storytelling means melting into the background. In an interview on the Nobel Web site, he says, "A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher, he's just someone who is witness to what is around him."

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