J.M.G. Le Clézio - Desert

Financial Times“Both timely and prophetic...” One of Le Clézio’s major works and, despite the novel’s relative antiquity, it stands up remarkably well to 21st-century scrutiny. Most crucially, it reveals the history of colonial France in the Arab world as a deep-layered series of narratives

The Times“Storyline takes a back seat to atmospherics...” Desert worships at the altar of high literary art. For this novel is noteworthy for being dense, highly measured, intensely imagistic and deliberately protracted in its rhythms...

The New York Times“Rich, sprawling, searching, poetic, provocative...” It moves slowly, its pace set in the beginning by the tortuous trek across the Sahara and by Le Clézio’s way with language... Repetitions are deliberate, rhythmic, metaphors are meant to enlighten and reflect...

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