The African (eBook)

J.M.G. Le Clézio (Autor)

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2025
128 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-80533-451-4 (ISBN)

Infos

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature comes a memoir of childhood and legacy.In 1948, a young J. M. G. Le Clézio left behind a still-devastated Europe with his mother and brother to join his father, a military doctor in Nigeria, from whom he had been separated by the war.In his characteristically intimate, poetic voice, the Nobel Prize-winning author relates both the child's dazzled discovery of freedom in the African savannah and the torment of recalling his fractured relationship with a rigid, authoritarian father.Now available to UK readers in English for the first time, The African is a poignant memoir of a lost childhood and a tribute to a father whom Le Clézio never really knew. His legacy is the passionate anti-colonialism that the author has carried through his life.

Autor

J. M. G. Le Clézio was born in Nice in 1940, the descendant of a family from Brittany that emigrated to Mauritius in the eighteenth century. He is the author of more than forty books and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2025
• Übersetzer: C. Dickson
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Schlagworte: Africa • anti-colonialism • Childhood • childhood memories • Colonial history • cultural exploration • Emotional Reflection • European History • evocative prose • expatriate experience • Family • Father Figure • father-son dynamics • freedom • Healing • historical context • Identity • Intimate narrative • legacy • Literary heritage • literary memoir • Lost Childhood • Memoir • Nigeria • Nobel Prize winner • paternal relationship • personal journey • poetic voice • Post-War • Savannah • Storytelling • Trauma
• ISBN-10: 1-80533-451-4 / 1805334514
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80533-451-4 / 9781805334514