Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur
Encyclopedia
Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleuris a novella
written in French
by French
author and Nobel laureate
J. M. G. Le Clézio. It is one of the first published texts written by Le Clézio. This novella was published in book form after the famous Le Procès-Verbal
, his first novel which won the Renaudot prize in 1963.This novella was also included in a collection of short stories entitled La fièvre
( Pages 60 to 87).
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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...
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
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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. It is one of the first published texts written by Le Clézio. This novella was published in book form after the famous Le Procès-Verbal
Le Procès-Verbal
Le Procès-Verbal is the first novel of French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio, about a troubled man named Adam Pollo who "struggles to contextualize what he sees" and "to negotiate often disturbing ideas while simultaneously navigating through, for him, life’s absurdity and emptiness".-...
, his first novel which won the Renaudot prize in 1963.This novella was also included in a collection of short stories entitled La fièvre
La fièvre
La fièvre is the title of a set of short stories written in French by French author and Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio and translated into English by Daphne Woodward as Fever and published by Atheneum.-Contents:...
( Pages 60 to 87).
Meaning of the book's title in English
Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur could be translated as "The day Beaumont was acquainted with his pain".Reviews
There is a review in a blog called The Valve,where this novella was mentioned as having piqued the author's interest because of an opening paragraph written in the same style as Malone Meurt (Malone DiesMalone Dies
Malone Dies is a novel by Samuel Beckett. It was first published in 1951, in French, as Malone Meurt, and later translated into English by the author....
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