Una aventura griega

Only those who have experienced the burning fires of uncontrollable love will be able to understand the reasons that led María José Solano to leave everything and embark on A Greek Adventure alone. Accompanied only by a carry-on suitcase and the books of the object of her passion, the war hero and traveling chronicler Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), the writer embraces the remains of her legacy in the land of olive trees. . He walks through the same streets in which he, famous for epic adventures in the Hellenic country, had lived a thousand adventures and secret affairs; she toasts with uzo and retsina in the taverns where he got drunk with his bohemian circle and, perhaps like him, she dreams of the possibility of encapsulating the magical past of a country brimming with archaeological treasures. On this unique journey, which can be read almost as a romance with Fermorian work, Solano stops at legendary places such as Corinth, Mycenae, Epidaurus, Sparta or the island of Hydra, where Leigh Fermor (Paddy, for his friends) spent a long period in a mansion now - of course - declared in ruins. From each of these enclaves, capital to understand the figure of the adventurer, the Sevillian writer declares her eternal love for a character as unique as he is enigmatic, with his lights and his shadows, always impetuous and, until his last breath, driven by a hunger. insatiable of action and knowledge.