The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008 returns today with a collection of eight short stories that highlight the “undesirables”. Through his pen and his humanism, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio gives voice to the excluded, to the oppressed of an often hostile world. So that literature becomes a vital impulse to life.
When did his first novel appear? The verbal procedure », Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was only 23 years old. A literary shock which almost – apart from the preponderant voice of the president – was immediately crowned by the jury of the Prix Goncourt. He finally won the Renaudot Prize, before receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008.
This is to say that Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, whose words are as rare as the pen is beautiful, is one of the major figures of contemporary French literature. After a good thirty novels and a dozen essays, here he is back in bookstores with a collection of eight short stories around those he calls the “undesirables”, the unknown foreigners, the oppressed and the excluded, children of war or prisoners in slave camps.
Through his words and his pure language, he gives them a name, a face, an identity and in a way their letters of nobility. ” Obverse, news of the undesirables was published by Gallimard editions.