Author: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Translator: Sang-hee Hong
Publisher: Munhakdongne
484 pages | 210*148mm
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About This Book
Desert, a novel by Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, received
a prize from the French Academy. It was published in 1980 by Editions
Gallimard. According to the Swedish Academy, the novel "contains
magnificent images of a lost culture in the North African desert
contrasted with a depiction of Europe seen through the eyes of unwanted
immigrants."
Le Clezio has been writing since age seven; his first work was a book
about the sea. After majoring in French literature, he became well-known
at age 23 with the publication of his first novel, Le Proces-Verbal (The
Interrogation), which was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and for
which he was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1963.
Since then he has published about 30 books, including short stories,
novels, essays, two translations on the subject of Native American
mythology, countless prefaces and reviews as well as a few contributions
to collective publications. In addition he is the author of several
children's books.
From 1963 to 1975 Le Clezio explored themes like insanity, language,
writing and devoted himself to formal experimentation in the wake of
such contemporaries as Georges Perec or Michel Butor. Le Clezio's public
image was that of an innovator and a rebel, drawing praise from Michel
Foucault and Gilles Deleuze.
In the late 1970s Le Clezio's style underwent a drastic change; he
abandoned experimentation, and the mood of his novels became less
tormented as he broached themes like childhood, adolescence, and
traveling, which attracted a broader, more popular audience. In 1980 Le
Clezio was the first winner of the newly created grand prix Paul Morand,
awarded to Desert by the Academie francaise.
In 1994 a survey conducted by the French literary magazine Lire showed
that 13% of the readers considered him to be the greatest living French
language writer.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008. Other French
citizens to receive the prize include Gao Xingjian in 2000; he is the
first French-language writer to win since Claude Simon in 1985. The
Swedish Academy, in announcing the award, called Le Clezio an author of
new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a
humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.
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