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...wandering was at once physical and artistic. After studying film at the Sorbonne, and releasing more than 20 documentaries, he began to write novels in Persian. His first novel in French, “Singue Sabour” (“Stone of Patience”), earned him the Goncourt Prize...
...easy to classify. Like the writers of the nouveau roman, he struggles with language itself and the ways contemporary life have drained it of meaning; he has often stated that his favorite novelists are James Joyce and Robert Louis Stevenson. Le proces-verbal was short-listed for the Prix Goncourt and won the Prix Renaudot, and Le Clézio has been in the front rank of French literature ever since...
...ofthe tunnel! Traversing the bridge of life!Receding into the blur of memory! However,the actual subject-matter of “Memory”remains rather mysterious. At leastwe can rest assured that the book is notonly a bestseller in France and a winnerof the Prix Goncourt, but also the winnerof Elle Magazine’s Reader’s Prize.The CommonerBy Jonathan BurnhamSchwartzOut NowNan A. TaleseNothing Drops in ‘Before It Falls’When authors, editors, publishers, and their marketing minions conveneto discuss what shall adorn their precious new creation, many questionsmust trouble them...
...nobody takes culture more seriously than the French. They subsidize it generously; they cosset it with quotas and tax breaks. French media give it vast amounts of airtime and column inches. Even fashion magazines carry serious book reviews, and the Nov. 5 announcement of the Prix Goncourt - one of more than 900 French literary prizes - was front-page news across the country. (It went to Gilles Leroy's novel Alabama Song.) Every French town of any size has its annual opera or theater festival, nearly every church its weekend organ or chamber-music recital...
...greatest work, The Last of the Just, traced one Jewish family's history from the Crusades to the death camps at Auschwitz. The novel-inspired by the murder of Schwarz-Bart's entire Polish-Jewish family by the Nazis-swas awarded France's highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt...