Terra Amata (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

J.M.G. Le Clézio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141191414 ISBN 13: 9780141191416

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

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 end of his own life, he relishes the most minute details of his physical surroundings - whether a grain of sand, an insect or a blade of grass - as he journeys on a sensory adventure from cradle to grave. Filled with cosmic ruminations, lyrical description and virtuoso games of language and the imagination, Terra Amata brilliantly explores humankind's place in the universe, the relationship between us and the Earth we inhabit and, ultimately, how to live.

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Review:

'A writer of something akin to genius' Sunday Telegraph

From the Back Cover:

Translated by Barbara Bray

'A writer of something akin to genius' Sunday Telegraph

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 end of his own life, he relishes the most minute details of his physical surroundings - whether a grain of sand, an insect or a blade of grass - as he journeys on a sensory adventure from cradle to grave. Filled with cosmic ruminations, lyrical description and virtuoso games of language and the imagination, Terra Amata brilliantly explores humankind's place in the universe, the relationship between us and the Earth we inhabit and, ultimately, how to live.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141191414
• ISBN 13: 9780141191416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224