by J. M. G. Le Clézio · Gallimard · tapa dura · ISBN 9782070768530
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«Révolutions» is the novel by J. M. G. Le Clézio, published by Gallimard in hardcover (554 pages, in French).
Set in Nice in the 1950s and 1960s, the novel reconstructs family memory and its link with Mauritius, the land of the narrator's ancestors. Emigrants from Europe, Asia and Africa, exiles and repatriates from the Algerian War cross paths, while the narrative explores exile and the search for one's own land.
Edition published on February 6, 2003; the cover indicates 'roman' and the nrf collection.
For readers of Le Clézio and contemporary French fiction with an interest in memory and exile.
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".
