by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432228452
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«El Diluvio» is the novel by J. M. G. Le Clézio, published by Seix Barral in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
After witnessing the appearance of a young woman on a motorcycle as a siren sounds, François Besson suffers a crisis and begins to see death everywhere. For thirteen days he listens to the recording of a friend explaining her reasons for ending her life and traverses the city in a pilgrimage that portrays human fragility and urban decay.
Work originally published as «Le Déluge» in 1966. This Spanish edition is part of the Biblioteca Formentor collection; J. M. G. Le Clézio received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in twentieth-century French literature and the work of Le Clézio.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French, Mauritian, and British nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".
