Ailleurs
Encyclopedia
Ailleurs are the transcripts of a series of interviews between Jean-Louis Ezine and the French
author and Nobel laureate
J. M. G. Le Clézio.
Some of the themes expanded in these interviews are:
According to the publisher,the interviews lead to a book which is " an opus on thinking and on poetry" and which uses "broad strokes using mythological colors to tell his story".The storyline of this book is definitely what the French call " Ailleurs" meaning somewhere else.
in 1988 as part of a radio-programme "A voix nue".
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author and Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize in Literature
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
J. M. G. Le Clézio.
Short summary
Ailleurs (French for "Elsewhere") reads like a meandering conversation where Le Clézio gets to talk about his childhood, his dreams, where he prefers to do his writing as well as aviation and how he escapes from the everyday .Some of the themes expanded in these interviews are:
- The gold-digger who was Le Clézio's grandfather.
- His English-speaking father.
- Milly-la-ForêtMilly-la-ForêtMilly-la-Forêt is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.-Geology:The Forest of Fontainebleau in the western end of which Milly-la-Forêt lies, is composed of the Oligocene Fontainebleau sands, which are a marine deposit, laid down in an intertidal...
(the village where his mother was born). - Why he was that kind of a child who would prefer to stay in a cabin somewhere off of the coast of Africa to write.
- He was also a teenager who believed his destiny was to be found in comic strips.
- Why Le Clézio was a (human-)being not like other beings;how he was preoccupied with medation and (day)dreaming.
- Le Clézio claiming never to have been either a cheap nor a false populist.
- Le Clézio on bearing no resentment or any deisire to get revenge.
According to the publisher,the interviews lead to a book which is " an opus on thinking and on poetry" and which uses "broad strokes using mythological colors to tell his story".The storyline of this book is definitely what the French call " Ailleurs" meaning somewhere else.
Broadcast
This book incldes interviews previously broadcast on France CultureFrance Culture
France Culture is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France. Its programming encompasses a wide variety of features on historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and scientific themes , as well as literary readings, radio plays, and experimental productions...
in 1988 as part of a radio-programme "A voix nue".