Description
A solitary young man, Adam Pollo—perhaps the first, perhaps the last—finds himself drawn into an interior odyssey where perception becomes a kind of interrogation. As he concentrates and discovers new ways of seeing, he slips beyond human boundaries, entering the lives of animals and the presence of a tree, as if life itself were questioning him back. Yet the story turns when his encounter with the society of his own species forces the limits of his inward freedom into the open. With a lyrical, experimental sensibility often compared to the modernist shock of Kafka, Joyce, and Beckett, this early work by J. M. G. Le Clézio explores solitude, consciousness, and the fragile distance between being alive and being understood.
Available Editions
paperback
Simon & Schuster
Published Jan 1, 2010
5 pages
ISBN: 9781439159743
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Details
First Published
1963
Language
eng
Translation
From: fra
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