10 October 2008

Laureate in the afternoon.


2008 Nobel Prize winner in literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Too frustrating that the "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization," is unavailable in English. Too, too frustrating that years upon years of French class leave me needing the English translation. I could probably read Madeline in French. And that's only because I have it memorized from childhood. In a small house in Paris all covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines...

2 comments:

  1. my partner loves his work! le déluge and l'extase matérielle are two of his favourites.

    le clézio is also great-looking.

    cheers.

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  2. He is quite, quite lovely to look at, which is all I can do until they translate him!

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