Summary
The visionary and startling first novel from the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2008
Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside villa. He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scanty purchases - cigarettes, biscuits, beer - permit. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other modes of being: through a dog’s eye or a rat’s … states of heightened consciousness which build up into a terrifying world of gl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141042923 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141042923 |
| Author: | J.M.G. Le Clézio |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2009 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘Praise for the 1964 edition: ‘A brilliant and fascinating literary debut, flecked throughout with an originality and a freshness of thought which stirs the imagination’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Unusually original … not since Antoine stared at his hand and wished it would turn into a frog in Sartre’s La Nausee have I read a novel so successful in communicating the horrors of such trivia as muck up our day-to-day existence. This is a most remarkable literary debut’ Spectator
J.M.G. Le Clézio
J.M.G. Le Clezio was born on 13th April 1940 in Nice. He was educated at the University College of Nice and at Bristol and London universities. With his knowledge of English he was able to work closely with his translator on The Interrogation, his first novel, which won the Prix Renaudot in 1963. Since then has written over thirty highly acclaimed books and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008.
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