The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga by Sylvain Tesson, as the title suggests, documents the author’s six-month stay in a cabin in Siberia. An interesting book. Tesson is not a run-of-the-hill hermit. He drinks a lot of vodka, he visits his distant neighbors. He certainly feels the highs and lows of solitary living, but you could hardly say he spent six months alone in a cabin. He was still part of a real (although far-flung) community of fellow cabin dwellers. So if you are looking for the musing of the religiously isolated individual, this is not the book for you. Tesson writes well about topics you would expect in such a book, but he has too much company.
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