Here is a Le Clézio quote that came up in one of the many articles that is being written about him after the literature Nobel prize. Strangely this important figure of French literature is little translated into English:
`The dawn of peoples is important because we seem now to be living in the dusk. You have the sense that we are getting near the end.`
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, a true citizen of the world, is a patient student of non-western, extra-logical sensibilities and civilisations.
Here is an excerpt from his novel Étoile Errante (Wandering Star) from the Words Without Borders website. Wandering Star is the story of two teenage girls, Esther a French Jew and Nejma an Arab.
The excerpt is an English translation of the French original.
`The dawn of peoples is important because we seem now to be living in the dusk. You have the sense that we are getting near the end.`
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, a true citizen of the world, is a patient student of non-western, extra-logical sensibilities and civilisations.
Here is an excerpt from his novel Étoile Errante (Wandering Star) from the Words Without Borders website. Wandering Star is the story of two teenage girls, Esther a French Jew and Nejma an Arab.
The excerpt is an English translation of the French original.
1 comments:
le clezio is a wonderful writer and he deserved it for his cosmopolitan books
www.arelis.gr
it contains the forbidden in greece by the regime of karamanlis
erotonomicon that caused a series of reactions with its sexual context
and the poems new york olympia
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