by J. M. G. Le Clézio · Mercure de France · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782715224704
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«L'Africain» is J. M. G. Le Clézio's autobiographical account, published by Mercure de France in paperback (103 pages, in French).
The author recalls his childhood and his return from Africa, when he had invented a past for himself to feel integrated. When his father reappears, now retired, he discovers that the real African was himself, and reconstructs the father figure through memories, travels and silences. An intimate portrait of his relationship with Africa, memory and identity.
Published in 2004 in the collection «Traits et portraits» by Mercure de France. J. M. G. Le Clézio was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008.
For those looking for a brief and personal account of the African childhood of a Nobel Prize in Literature winner.
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".
