The Interrogation

From the original Atheneum edition jacket, 1964.J.M.G Le Cl zio, 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 circlesWhat is The Interrogation Most likely a myth without distinct delineations A very solitary young man, Adam Pollo, perhaps the first man, perhaps the last, has a very remarkable interior adventure He concentrates and he discovers ways of being, ways of seeing He enters into animals, into a tree He has no business, no distractions he is at the complete disposal of life All of life, that is, except the society of his own species and so the story endsThis is the next phase after the the new novel, wrote the critics Kafka they said a direct descendant of Joyce, they said Beckett they said Like nothing else, they said One hundred thousand Frenchmen bought it They said it was strange and beautiful Finally the real voice of the young, said the critics I like J D Salinger, said Mr Le Cl zio, and that was all he said His remarkable first book will soon be published all over the world and much will be said. New Read The Interrogation Author J.M.G. Le Clézio For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr One of the Worst Novelists to win the Nobel PrizeAfter Bob Dylan s Nobel Prize there has been a lot of writing about writers who were never awarded the Nobel, and about how political the prize has often been It s also illuminating to consider writers will have gotten the prize but haven t stood the test of time There have been some astonishi...J.M.G Le Clezio s The Interrogation begins like a French beatnik novel We are in a Riviera resort town looking through the eyes of one Adam Pollo, a squatter living in a vacation home He smokes, reads newspapers and magazines, works on his suntan, and occasionally gets together with his girlfriend Michelle, from whom he borrows money from time to time.After a while, the relationship goes bad, and Adam becomesfrenzied as the weather changes from summer to winter He breaks down at one po J.M.G Le Clezio s The Interrogation begins like a French beatnik novel We are in a Riviera resort town looking through the eyes of one Adam Pollo, a squatter living in a vacation home He smokes, reads newspapers and magazines, works on his suntan, and occasionally gets together with his girlfriend Michelle, from whom he borrows money from time to time.After a while, the relationship goes bad, and Adam becomesfrenzied as the weather changes from summer to winter He breaks down at one point, ranting at a crowd, until he is picked up and moved to a...I read this book aloud from the translation by Daphne Woodward In French, the title proc s verbal isaccurate andbroadly evocative than Interrogation A proc s verbal may refer the minutes of a meeting, such as the meeting some psychiatry students hold to question the protagonist in the last third of the book, but it may all so refer to a summary of the facts in a criminal case, which is what the whole book is.On the surface, this is the story of a mentally disturbed young man I read this book aloud from the translation by Daphne Woodward In French, the title proc s verbal isaccurate andbroadly evocative than Interrogation A proc s verbal may refer the minutes of a meeting, such as the meeting some psychiatry students hold to question the protagonist in the last third of the book, but it may all so refer to a summary of the facts in a criminal case, which is what the whole book is.On the surface, this is the story of a mentally disturbed young man who gradually slips from life squatting in a house in a southern French resort town where he is involved in something resembling a relationship with a girl, through progressivelybizarre actions and harangues to confinement in a mental hospital At least for me, the young man in his self centered state is initially ...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...Superbe Un r cit poignant d un homme qui avait fait trop de confiance en ce monde, un monde qu il voulait simple et flou Par l interm diare d Adam Pollo, Le Cl zio fait le portrait d une soci t qui n a plus de patience ni de compr hension pour les id alistes, les chercheurs de beaut et de sens 4,6 5If you weren t having an existential crisis when you start, you will be when you finish.Le parole odorano di terra, sole, delle polvere di una casa abbandonata, di vegetazione arsa dal sole, di animale in putrefazione, di iodio.C un susseguirsi di immagini che sfumano, cambiano colore, si appannano, si trasformano in deliro, riflessione, anarchia Il mare rotondo, biancastro, merlato e rigido come un blocco di pietra, a 6000 piedi di profondit , e tuttavia, osservandolo bene, c qualcosa, indipendentemente dal sole che sorge, una specie di piccolo grumo di materia, un difetto Le parole odorano di terra, sole, delle polvere di una casa abbandonata, di vegetazione arsa dal sol...Flawless I wanted to eat every single word, literally And to chew paper on which it was printed I had a chance to compare English, Russian and Polish editions Incredible language in every case I feel a bit sorry I can t enjoy reading this book in original C , ,, , , , , , Flawless I wanted to eat every single word, literally And to chew paper on which it was printed I had a ch...There s a lot to admire about this novel But LC s protagonist gets increasingly annoying He s a complete loser or lunatic, or both, who wanders around, has a sort of girlfriend and a sort of dogfriend , and that s pretty much it The pace is like a slow French film, but with little dial...THis is a pretentious quasi experimental novel done better by other writers of his generation Not without interest in first hundred pages but sags under the weight of it s smug, conflated narritive vocue and technique I sincerely hope his books gets better as his career progresses considerin...

• English
• 04 February 2018
J.M.G. Le Clézio
• Paperback
• 243 pages
• 1439149410
• J.M.G. Le Clézio
• The Interrogation