Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer
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Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer (suivi de La Montagne ou le dieu vivant) is the title of two novella
s written in French
by French
author and Nobel laureate
J. M. G. Le Clézio and one of these novellas was translated into English as The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea and published by the New Yorker magazine.
s in one book.
Re-printed 2002-02-01 and by Gallimard Jeunesse in the year 2008.
where registration is required; however, an excerpt from this translation is online
Novella
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
s written in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
by French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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 and one of these novellas was translated into English as The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea and published by the New Yorker magazine.
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First French Edition
Second French Edition
Two NovellaNovella
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
s in one book.
Re-printed 2002-02-01 and by Gallimard Jeunesse in the year 2008.
Third French Edition
First English translation
Online version
"The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea" is available online only to subscribers of The New YorkerThe New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
where registration is required; however, an excerpt from this translation is online