Word: renaudot
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...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...
...raging to be merely satirical, too exuberant to be tragic, his first novel (the first African novel to win one of France's top literary honors, the Prix Renaudot) begins as a sort of mock epic outlining in blood red the very real history of an imaginary African empire, Nakem...
...handsome lad of 29 with sporting initials and a static style who has in recent years been a flashily successful practitioner of that mournful art. His first book, The Interrogation, a kind of Krapp's First Tape, won France's third most prestigious literary award, the Prix Renaudot. His second novel, The Flood, a further torrent of talent and eloquence put mainly to the purposes of adolescent simpering, was also drowned with praise. But it is doubtful if any amount of critical bolstering will be able to shore up his latest novel, which reads a bit like...
...French, half English, tall and gaunt, has been lionized by Paris literary hostesses, who find his book a required topic of conversation and its author "frightfully good-looking." Since its publication a year ago, it has sold the exceptional total of 110,000 copies, and has won the highbrow Renaudot Prize. It has intense visual strength and might easily be transcribed into a New Wave movie by some current master of the jolting, hand-held camera. Yet it lacks human warmth, and ends as another pale variation of the modish French anti-novel-truly a tale of tedium...
...PRIX RENAUDOT. The awakening of a West Indian seemed a noble enough theme for Negro Poet Edouard Glissant's La Lezarde. The murder of a young Martinique native and the accidental killing of the murderer's girl friend, who is then devoured by the murderer's own dogs, might even be construed to symbolize poetic justice. But literary justice miscarried when Glissant got a prize; critics thought him an intriguing but inept writer...