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Mondo and Other Stories
J.M.G. Le Clezio
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Description for Mondo and Other Stories
Paperback. A collection of stories describing the beauty of the natural world, as experienced by children. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
In awarding him the Nobel Prize in 2008, the Swedish Academy hailed J. M. G. Le Clézio as an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation.” The outlying humanity that Le Clézio explores in this collection of stories finds its expression in the understanding of children. The world of Mondo and Other Stories is that of a natural world pushed to the margins by complacent, indifferent modernity.
Haunting and beautiful, these stories speak to a universal longing for a life beyond the confines and trappings of modern ... Read more
In awarding him the Nobel Prize in 2008, the Swedish Academy hailed J. M. G. Le Clézio as an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation.” The outlying humanity that Le Clézio explores in this collection of stories finds its expression in the understanding of children. The world of Mondo and Other Stories is that of a natural world pushed to the margins by complacent, indifferent modernity.
Haunting and beautiful, these stories speak to a universal longing for a life beyond the confines and trappings of modern ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
301g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803230002
SKU
V9780803230002
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99-1
About J.M.G. Le Clezio
J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in Nice in 1940 and is one of France’s best-known contemporary writers. His books Onitsha and The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts are both available from the University of Nebraska Press. Alison Anderson is the author of Hidden Latitudes and Darwin’s Wink and translated ... Read more
Reviews for Mondo and Other Stories
"Le Clezio's style is the collection's greatest attraction. Anderson's elegant translation conveys the detailed, physical, fluid, and complex lushness of the language, which may engage and satisfy readers of Garcia Marquez and other master stylists."-Ellen Loughran, Booklist
Ellen Loughran Booklist "In Le Clezio's fictional universe, the world exists in a prelapsarian state of timeless grace, at least until the ... Read more
Ellen Loughran Booklist "In Le Clezio's fictional universe, the world exists in a prelapsarian state of timeless grace, at least until the ... Read more