African
Published on 30. April 2013
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-56792-460-2 (ISBN)
Description
The African is a concise autobiographical account of a pivotal moment in Nobel-Prize-winning author J. M. G. Le Clezio's childhood. In 1948, young Le Clezio, with his mother and brother, left behind a still-devastated Europe to join his father, a military doctor in Nigeria, from whom he'd been separated by the war. In Le Clezio's characteristically intimate, poetic voice, the narrative relates both the dazzled enthusiasm the child feels at discovering newfound freedom in the African savannah and his torment at discovering the rigid authoritarian nature of his father. The power and beauty of the book reside in the fact that both discoveries occur simultaneously.
Reviews / Votes
"Le Clezio is ever the master at rendering existence at the level of sensation with a daring and admirable freshness of language" (Peter Brooks, New York Times) "Le Clezio's work defies easy characterization, but in more than 40 essays, novels and children's books, he has written of exile and self-discovery, of cultural dislocation and globalization, of the clash between modern civilization and traditional cultures. Having lived and taught in many parts of the world, he writes as fluently about North African immigrants in France, native Indians in Mexico and islanders in the Indian Ocean as he does about his own past". (The New York Times)"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
black & white photos throughout
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
292 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56792-460-2 (9781567924602)
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Persons
J.M.G. Le Clezio (b. 1940) is the author of more than 40 works of fiction and nonfiction. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature as an "author of new departures, poetic adventures and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".