The Prospector

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The Prospector is the crowning achievement from one of France s preeminent contemporary novelists and a work rich with sensuality and haunting resonance It is the turn of the century on the island of Mauritius, and young Alexis L Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister sampling the pleasures of privilege, exploring the constellations and tropical flora, and dreaming of treasure buried long ago by the legendary Unknown Corsair But with his father s death, Alexis must leave his childhood paradise and enter the harsh world of privation and shame Years later, Alexis has become obsessed with the idea of finding the Corsair s treasure and, through it, the lost magic and opulence of his youth He abandons job and family, setting off on a quest that will take him from remote tropical islands to the hell of World War I, and from a love affair with the elusive Ouma to a momentous confrontation with the search that has consumed his life By turns harsh and lyrical, pointed and nostalgic, The Prospector is a parable of the human condition Le Mond by one of the most significant literary figures in Europe today. 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Le Clézio – kino-fada.fr It begins here As far back as I can remember I have listened to the seaAnd it begins here The island of Mauritius It is Alexis L Etang who listens to the sea First on Mauritius in 1892, a multi cultural boy on a multi cultural island But you know how these things go Even there are racial strata Alexis is not black ...This book by the 2008 Nobel Prize winner J M G Le Cl zio is suffused with a combination of magic and a gentle irony It begins with one of the most luminous childhoods imaginable, with young Alexis L tang and his sister Laure growing up in a remote corner of Mauritius with their dreamer of a father and their gentle mother But if there is anything that life teaches us, it is that joys are fleeting Alexis is gripped with the same ignis fatuus as his father a feverish desire to dig up the mythi This book by the 2008 Nobel Prize winner J M G Le Cl zio is suffused with a combination of magic and a gentle irony It begins with one of the most luminous childhoods imaginable, with young Alexis L tang and his sister Laure growing up in a remote corner of Mauritius with their dreamer of a father and their gentle mother But if there is anything that life teaches us, it is that joys are fleeting Alexis is gripped with the same ignis fatuus as his father a feverish desire to dig up the mythical buried treasure of the 18th century pirate known only as The Corsair.In his search for... Evokativan, gust lirizam koji, naro ito u prvoj polovini knjige, podse a na knji evnu verziju ranih albuma o Kortu Maltezeu i ju na mora, i potraga za gusarskim blagom, i brat i sestra koji odrastaju u tom idili no romanti nom pejza u, i pribli avanje Prvog svetskog rata.E, ali dosadno do bola Ne znam kako je to autoru po lo za rukom, pi e kao an eo, ali do.sad.no Mnogo mi je krivo i ose am se kao ak Galkjevi iz Ferdidurki Kako te to ne odu evljava, Galkjevi u, jesam li ti hiljadu puta Evokativan, gust lirizam koji, naro ito u prvoj polovini knjige, podse a na knji evnu verziju ranih albuma o Kortu Maltezeu i ju na mora, i potraga za gusarskim blagom, i brat i sestra koji odrastaju u tom idili no romanti nom pejza u, i pribli avanje Prvog svetskog rata.E, ali dosadno do bola Ne znam kako je to autoru po lo za rukom, pi e kao an eo, ali do.sad.no Mnogo mi je krivo i ose am se kao ak Galkjevi iz Ferdidurki Kako ...Where have all the aesthetes gone That s troublesome It seems these days there are entertainers and artists both forgoing the idea of beauty What s odd is that this time on Planet Earth is probably the softest time to be alive in its history and when, if one wanted, being into the pursuit of beauty is at its most accessible point to people And yet for the most part, from popular entertainment to art there is rampant unhinged cynicism running around, lots of ugly, that I see bleeding into the Where have all the aesthetes gone That s troublesome It seems these days there are entertainers and artists both forgoing the idea of beauty What s odd is that this time on Planet Earth is probably the softest time to be alive in its history and when, if one wanted, being into the pursuit of beauty is at its most accessible point to people And yet for the most part, from popular entertainment to art there is rampant unhinged cynicism running around, lots of ugly, that I see bleeding into the minds of people A little bit ago, someone asked what I thought the world needed, and I said, flowers The gentlemen became sort of engaged, YOU ARE A DREAMER Huh Flowers are the sign of a dreameras if this is bad Potted plants are available at your local greenhouse for a couple dollars This struck me as sad, he did Maybe it s what people have in terms of expectation as to what l...Had I read this book when I was 16, I may have thought it a masterpiece Now, I think it is boring and navel gazing In short, this is the story of a man of French decent who grew up on Mauritius After recounting his childhood, the happiness of which is cut short by a hurricane and an evil uncle seriously , he tries to recapture the magic of his boyhood for the rest of the book He hunts buried treasure for years, goes to war, and has an affair with a beautiful woman The affair is especially Had I read this book when I was 16, I may have thought it a masterpiece Now, I think it is boring and navel gazing In short, this is the story of a m...This novel about a man s search for a lost treasure and personal fulfillment begins on the island of Mauritius in 1892, where the eight year old Alexis L Estang lives with his parents and beloved older sister Laure in an isolated house, surrounded by rich foliage and close to the sea, which nurtures and draws him in every night His older friend Denis, the son of the black cook who lives nearby, teaches him about the mysteries of the sea and the local flora in the mountainous forest above it Hi This novel about a man s search for a lost treasure and personal fulfillment begins on the island of Mauritius in 1892, where the eight year old Alexis L Estang lives with his parents and beloved older sister Laure in an isolated house, surrounded by rich foliage and close to the sea, which nurtures and draws him in every night His older friend Denis, the son of the black cook who lives nearby, teaches him about the mysteries of the sea and the local flora in the mountainous forest above it His father also pass...Translated from the French, this book is set around the turn of the Century in the former French colony of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, off of the island of Madagascar This is a many themed book If you ever dreamed of life on a tropical isle, a man and woman, living an isolated life, swimming naked, sleeping on the beach and spearing fish for food, here is a story for you The book has a couple of love stories, one between a brother and sister, so close from their isolated upbring Translated from the French, this book is set around the turn of the Century in the former French colony of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, off of the island of Madagascar This is a many themed book If you ever dreamed of life on a tropical isle, a man and woma...Published in 1985 by this 2008 Nobel Prize winning French author, The Prospector is a fascinating and beautifully written work Taking place between 1890 and 1925, largely in and near the island of Mauritius, it is told in the first person by Alexis L Etang, beginning when he is eight years old and concluding when he is about forty Structured in literary quest form, the book has seven distinct sections, beginning with Bouran, an Edenic paradise where Alexis spends most of his childhood Here Published in 1985 by this 2008 Nobel Prize winning French author, The Prospector is a fascinating and beautifully written work Taking place between 1890 and 1925, largely in and near the island of Mauritius, it is told in the first person by Alexis L Etang, beginning when he is eight years old and concluding when he is about forty Structured in literary quest form, the book has seven distinct sections, beginning with Bouran, an Edenic paradise where Alexis spends most of his childhood Here there is even an explicit tree of good and evil, and ...As far back as I can remember, the sound of the sea has been in my ears Mingled with that of the wind in the needles of the sh oaks, the wind that never stops, even when you leave the coast behind and cross the cane fields, it s the sound of my childhood I can still hear it now, deep down inside of me, it accompanies me whenever I go The slow, tireless sound of the waves breaking out on the coral reefs in the distance and then coming up to die on the sand of Black River There s never a day I As far back as I can remember, the sound of the sea has been in my ears Mingled with that of the wind in the needles of the sh oaks, the wind that never stops, even when you leave the coast behind and cross the cane fields, it s the sound of my childhood I can still hear it now, deep down inside of me, it accompanies me whenever I go The slow, tireless sound of the waves breaking out on the coral reefs in the distance and then coming up to die on the sand of Black River There s never a day I don t go down to the sea, nor a night that I don t wake up, sit up in my cot, back damp with sweat, pull aside the mosquito net and try to hear the tide, fretful, filled with a yearning I don t understand.I think of the sea as a person in the darkness all of my senses are alert to better hear i coming, better welcome it The giant waves leap over the reeefs, come crashing down into the lagoon, and the noise makes the earth and the air quake like a blast furnace I can hear it, it s mov...

The Prospector
  • English
  • 06 February 2018
  • Paperback
  • 338 pages
  • 1567923801
  • J.M.G. Le Clézio
  • The Prospector