A man leaves his wife, his child, his home. He decides to go, to lead the life of a vagabond, and sets off on a journey that is meant to bring him to himself. He fails, drinks, and starts anew. He takes the reader along on these delirious, existential, and obsessive walks from Norway through Germany to France and Greece, through a Europe of art, myths, landscapes, and cities. Determined by the rhythm of a hard pace, by the darkness of drunkenness and complete physical exhaustion, he enters into dialogue with Rousseau, Rimbaud, Satie, Giacometti, Heidegger, and experiences an adventure of thought: With nothing but himself, completely thrown back on himself, what remains, who is one? Espedal's most read book: "Walking" is a highly concentrated text between novel, essay, and report, which Paul Berf has translated into German with precision and rhythm.