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La Quarantaine = The Quarantine (Fiction, Poetry & Drama) (French Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Gallimard Education, 1999
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Desert (Collection Folio, 1670) (French Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Editions Gallimard, 1985
A novel about freedom?
This book makes everybody dream who reads it. Written in two different time areas set up in a very interesting way, it tracks the life of African nomads at the beginning of the century through a young descendant of this tribe, Lalla. Lalla lives a childhood in a ...
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L'Africain (French Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Gallimard Education, 2005
Family history behind the fiction
This is a wonderful short memoir of Le Clezio's father. His parents were cousins who left Mauritius for Europe after the family lost their estate. His father studied medicine in Britain and wanted to get as far away from his lost home as possible, spending most of ...
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Mondo Et Autres Histoires (Collection Folio) (French Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Gallimard Education, 2000
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Terra Amata
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Imprint unknown, 1999
Chancelade, the "anti-Proust"?
Le Clezio's character Chancelade is not Proust, but more an "anti-Proust".
From the 1969 original English edition's book jacket: "Chancelade is determined to drain from life and his environment as many experiences as possible, and sets out to do so both in the ...
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The Prospector
J. M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave) Le Clezio
David R Godine, 2008
An Exquisite Dream
The title of this mesmerizing novel is misleading. The original French, LE CHERCHEUR D'OR, means literally "the seeker for gold." THE PROSPECTOR is an over-literal translation for such a poetic book, quite without metaphorical resonance. More important, it is a ...
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El Diluvio (Seix Barral Biblioteca Formentor) (Spanish Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Planeta Publishing, 2008
A WORLD OF WONDER
This is one of the first books b J M G Le Clezio so it is hard to get into it and like it from the start. A new world of thought, a new style of expression but, it was intriguing and eventually I got into it. I take Le Clezio seriously and have now read most of hie ...
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Coeur Brule: Et Autres Romances (Collection Folio) (French Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Gallimard Education, 2002
Solace in memories
Many of Le Clézio's characters reflect a sense of nostalgia for a time passed or a place left behind in the search for a better future. The prose pieces in this collection are no exception. While mostly still in their youth, the central characters have already ...
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Proces Verbal (Collection Folio) (French Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Gallimard Education, 1973
A good sample of Le Clezio
When the author was awarded with the Nobel Prize, I decided to see what his prose was like and read this novel in the original. Overall although I had some problem with the novel at some point (because the plot isn't clearly defined and you may lose interest somewhere ...
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Onitsha (Collection Folio) (French Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Assimil Gmbh, 1993
"Now he knew that he was in the very heart of his dream... "
Memoirs or fictional accounts of childhood experiences in Africa have become popular in recent years, in particular by Africans having escaped the horrors of war. They express a need to reconnect with their roots and their lasting influence on their lives. JMG Le ...
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Lullaby (French Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Gallimard Education, 2007
LE CLÃ?ZIO - THE NEW YLVEKA TÃ~RKEBERG?
This book joins in with the solid nordic tell-tale formal tradition, instituted by swedish writers Ylveka Tørkeberg and Salve Nysse. "Lullaby" is transtextually linked to Hjørdis Fittebergs "Somrar på stagen" (Summers in Florence)and Valse Nyholts often ...
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Diego Y Frida (Spanish Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, Diego Rivera, ...
Diana Edit, 2002
Diego and Frida
This is an extraordinary book. To start the translation is the best French to Spanish translation I have ever read. It is, I am sure, as good as the original French version. Y-The translator certainly read this book several times to understand well what the author ...
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Ronde Et Autres Faits divers (Collection Folio (Gallimard)) (French Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Gallimard Education, 1990
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Ritournelle de la Faim (French Edition)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Gallimard Education, 2008
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Le Chercheur d'Or
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Assimil Gmbh, 1988
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