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Bronwen Martin
This book presents a close reading of four texts by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, highlighting the philosophical and ecological role accorded poetic, sensorial expression and the imagination.
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J.M.G. Le Clezio
Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title features tales…
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Tells the stories of two young girls, one Jewish and one Palestinian, who meet once briefly by chance. Their stories are connected by substance, rather than plot. Each is a…
Francois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession…
Filled with cosmic ruminations, lyrical description and virtuoso games of language and the imagination, this title explores humankind’s place in the universe, the relationship between us and the Earth we…
Young Man Hogan’s journey begins in the dazzling streets of a nameless necropolis, and leads across fleeting landscapes - deserts, seas, mountains, islands, cities and great plains - to countless…
Bernd-Jurgen Kiltz
Die als Beitrag zum zeitgenossischen Roman in Frankreich angelegte Untersuchung versucht, den Standort Le Clezios als Erzahler und Literaturtheoretiker im Spannungsfeld moderner Tendenzen genauer zu bestimmen. Eine strukturell-hermeneutische Analyse zweier…
J.M.G Le Clezio (Author)
A haunting, lyrical and mythic novel of a man haunted by visions of his ideal childhood, from the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature, J. M. G. Le…
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The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time.
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Keith Moser
This interdisciplinary investigation explores the original euphoria related to the ambivalent concept of the ‘global village’ and how this evaporated dream can perhaps be reappropriated and redefined to create a…
Set largely in locations along the French Riviera, these 11 short stories depict with great compassion the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this privileged region.
The outlying humanity that Le Clezio explores in this collection of stories finds its expression in the understanding of children. The world of Mondo and Other Stories is that of…
Adina Balint-Babos
Le processus de creation dans l'oeuvre de J.M.G. Le Clezio propose une etude des etapes du travail createur dans les romans, essais et nouvelles de Le Clezio, prix Nobel de…
J. M. G. Le Clezio
Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. Each of us will see ourselves reflected in the characters who move…
War - in the mind of the fragile Bea B., in the infinite icy landscape she journeys through, in Vietnam, in 10,000 years of human history. Under her searching gaze…
Elham Ali Essa Mahmoud
Le roman Onitsha de Le Clezio, c'est un recit a le gout des reves decus et de la beaute de la terre africaine; les rapports familiaux delites et les relations…
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Ananda Devi
A harrowing account of the hidden violent reality of life in her native country by the figurehead of Mauritian literature.
Fintan is a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic…
