The Great Easter Ambulation

Paris, Easter weekend 1960. The French composer Jacques Besse sets out on a marathon stroll through the city that begins on Good Friday, when he leaves his brother's house on rue de Turbigo, and ends on Easter Monday, when, having declared himself Mars, the god of war, to mystified restaurant-goers, he ambles back toward Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Great Easter-a memoir in the form of a novella, or perhaps a novella in the form of a memoir-is the first-person account of a hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur's unending ambulation.
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