La Quarantaine (novel)
.jpg) 1997 Gallimard 'Folio' edition | |
| Author | J. M. G. Le Clézio |
|---|---|
| Original title | La Quarantaine |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Gallimard, collections "Blanche" et "Folio" |
Publication date | 1995 |
| Publication place | France |
| Pages | 540 pp |
| ISBN | 978-2-07-074318-6 |
| OCLC | 34472980 |
| 843/.914 20 | |
| LC Class | PQ2672.E25 Q37 1995 |
La Quarantaine is a 1995 novel by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. No English translation has been published.
Together with Révolutions (2003) and Ritournelle de la faim (2008), it is one of Le Clézio's Mauritius novels. Like many of his works, it has an autobiographical element.[1]
The novel describes Le Clézio's grandparent's journey to Mauritius in the 1870s, but most of the novel is set during their quarantine on Île Plate, close to Mauritius. The final chapter jumps to the 1980s, when the narrator is travelling to Mauritius to research his ancestry. The novel also describes the grandfather's meetings with Arthur Rimbaud in Paris and later in Aden.[2]
Publication history
First French edition
- Le Clézio, J. M. G (1995). La Quarantaine (in French). Paris: Gallimard, collections "Blanche" et "Folio". p. 540. ISBN 978-2-07-074318-6.
References
- ^ Jollin, Sophie (1997). "From the Renaudot Prize to the Puterbaugh Conference: The Reception of J. M. G. Le Clézio". World Literature Today. 71 (4): 737.
- ^ Archambault, P.J. (2009). "Jean-Marie Le Clézio and the 2008 Nobel Prize: Can France Really Claim Him?". Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. 63 (4): 281–297.