About this title: "From the original Atheneum edition jacket, 1964."
"J.M.G. Le Clezio, revelation of the literary year" ran the headline of the "Paris Express" after last year's prizes had been awarded. The Goncourt jury was locked five to five until its president used his double vote to give the prize to the older candidate. Ten minutes later the Renaudot jury elected the candidate they thought they might lose to the other prize. Most of the literary sections ran their prize news putting the Renaudot first, in order to feature the twenty-three-year-old discovery that was rocking Paris literary circles.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2008-12-09
ISBN-13:9781439149188ISBN:1439149186
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781439149188ISBN:1439149186
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Edition: 1st UK Edition
Binding: hardbound
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
Date Published: 1964
Description: jacked design Jonathan Nicholl. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. 8vo. Dustwrapper. 243pp. Rare 1st UK Edition of Le Clezio's first novel; with this work Le Clezio was recognised at once as an original talent, he went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literture in 2008; this copy has some light foxing to endpapers and prelims, med. Foxing to text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper has some very minor very occasional foxing, tiny nick out of lower edge near fold of flap, same to rear ... read more
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"I must say I find this book very french and very 60s. Not a bad thing mind you. Clearly copied by many others after. Easy to see why it won such a prestigious prize, especially by one so young. I recently watched Fando Y Lis which came out a couple of years or so later. Although different they held similarities for me in that they both are examples of the type of experimentalism in film and literature that was popularized in the 60s and 70s. Clearly the protagonist is insane but the world is shown to be as well. I believe if I had read this book when I was still in my 20s I would have given it 5 stars but the constant digressions and almost excruciating detail wore on me at times. I've become accustomed to the mad world we live in you see."
"I'm not sure if anyone is going to be swayed by my saying this, but either way: Read This! Seriously.
I know that the Nobel committee are a bunch of stodgy pretentious American hating bastards, but in this instance, they really got it right. There's not much that I can actually say about the book because there isn't a great deal that occurs, but never has nothing happening been described so perfectly. It's not a nothing happens in the "Seinfeld sense" either. It's more of a nothing happens in the dude spends 10 pages killing a rat, 5 pages describing a room, 20 pages following a dog that ultimately fornicates in a store, and so forth.
A 23 year old writing a publishable book in general is amazing. A 23 year old publishing one About (nearly) Nothing that has more nuance and depth than 99.999% of what is out there while managing to impart amazing truths at a breakneck speed is simply astonishing.
"Initially intoxicating, the writing suffused with a visionary apprehension of the world, like a Van Gogh world everywhere seething and alive and teetering on madness, but then it kind of let me down toward the end as it wrapped itself too neatly up and strove for "significance". And maybe one or two too many lit tricks, but still a powerful book."
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