Identité nomade - Rentrée littéraire janvier 2024 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Identité nomade - Rentrée littéraire janvier 2024

EAN : 9782221272633

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 144

Size : 130 x 200 mm

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A Nomad's Identity

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Release date : 11/01/2024

In this work, JMG Clézio opens his black box, unveiling what has awoken him to his calling as a writer. At first, the image of stonewalls along the Mediterranean beaches that the Germans had erected to prevent the locals from accessing the sea. During the war, the whole city was... In this work, JMG Clézio opens his black box, unveiling what has awoken him to his calling as a writer. At first, the image of stonewalls along the Mediterranean beaches that the Germans had erected to prevent the locals from accessing the sea. During the war, the whole city was but a giant prison under the open sky, inhabited by children, women, the old and weak, harrowed by hunger and sickness. Yet it was the very horror of these indelible images that would give rise to the author’s unique sensitivity, capturing everything around him, with all his senses. This heightened sensorial awareness led to a first novel, written at the tender age of ten, in which he imagined the story of an African child leaving Europe…
It was at that time that he travelled by boat to Africa, more precisely Nigeria, where his father lived and worked as a doctor. A father that the war had prevented him from knowing. A father through whom he would discover a whole new continent as well as a new destiny. Living with the local children, joining in their games, sharing their experience of a rich, yet fragile natural environment would inspire his own taste for freedom. A freedom that meant nothing else but the freedom to write.
With his hotchpotch of ancestries reaching from Britons stranded on Mauritius and a British father to a second childhood in Nigeria, JMG Le Clézio could but define his identity as a “Nomad’s identity”. An identity that entails a very unique relationship with history and geography. An identity that is founded on a constant awareness and attention towards others, to the disinherited, the unwanted, the different.
Questioning himself on the utility of literature, JMG Le Clézio has always aimed at making the act of writing an action in itself. Although it never has prevented any war, writing can be a refuge, perhaps a utopian one, from the disasters of our world. To this question of the existential function of writing, JMG Le Clézio tries to answer in this work with utter honesty as well as the whole scope of his vast culture and vision.

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Pages : 144

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