Auteur: J. M. G. Le Cl zio

Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside villa. He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scanty purchases – cigarettes, biscuits, beer – permit. Soon lac …

In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic ‘tales of little madness’, the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Cl zio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as fe …

For Chancelade, the world is teeming with beauty, wonder and possibilities. From a small boy playing on the beach, through his adolescence and his first love, to the death of his father and on to the …

Fran ois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and e …