http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2009/12/28/j-m-g-le-clezio-desert/ Book reviews of contemporary literary fiction and modern classics. Sun, 20 May 2012 18:41:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2009/12/28/j-m-g-le-clezio-desert/comment-page-1/#comment-4839 Lee Monks Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:44:40 +0000 http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/?p=2958#comment-4839 Le Clezio was one of my finds of the year; like you, I hadn't heard of the chap until very recently. Both Terra Amata and The Book Of Flights - particularly the latter for me - are exceptional. They manage to interrogate areas of thought normally deemed hazardous and inevitably prone to evoking a sense of sophomoric pretension without succumbing to such dangers. Which impressed the hell out of me. A bit like a Calvino; so at ease with his all-encompassing mindset that the aforementioned pratfalls are somehow subverted and become a kind of philosopher-raconteur monologue of rare brilliance. Le Clezio was one of my finds of the year; like you, I hadn’t heard of the chap until very recently. Both Terra Amata and The Book Of Flights – particularly the latter for me – are exceptional. They manage to interrogate areas of thought normally deemed hazardous and inevitably prone to evoking a sense of sophomoric pretension without succumbing to such dangers. Which impressed the hell out of me. A bit like a Calvino; so at ease with his all-encompassing mindset that the aforementioned pratfalls are somehow subverted and become a kind of philosopher-raconteur monologue of rare brilliance.

]]> http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2009/12/28/j-m-g-le-clezio-desert/comment-page-1/#comment-4837 Lisa Hill Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:20:57 +0000 http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/?p=2958#comment-4837 I bought Wandering Star when it became available here in Australia, and (prompted by your post) I added it to my tentative list of books to read for my 2010 Year of European Literature LOL - and now I have turned my library upside down searching for it but can't find it! Woe!! I bought Wandering Star when it became available here in Australia, and (prompted by your post) I added it to my tentative list of books to read for my 2010 Year of European Literature LOL – and now I have turned my library upside down searching for it but can’t find it!
Woe!!

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