Desert by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (Book Analysis)
Desert by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Desert by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including immigration, colonialism and the power of nature. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 66-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
- Presentation of Desert
- Summary of Desert
- Character study
- Nour
- Lalla
- The Hartani
- Naman
- Radicz
- Ma al-Aïnine
- Al Ser – al-Azraq – the Blue Man
- Analysis of Desert
- A historical novel
- A dual narrative
- Contrasting settings
- The opposition between the West and the Arab world
- Social criticism
About Desert
Desert interweaves two stories set several decades apart: that of Nour, a member of a nomadic tribe in the Sahara in the early 20th century, and that of Lalla, a free-spirited and fiercely independent teenaged girl growing up in the 1970s. Through these two stories, Le Clézio explores the power and beauty of the desert, the dangers of the city and the culture clash between the Arab world and its Western colonisers.
Desert met with both popular and critical acclaim when it was published in 1980, and undoubtedly contributed to Le Clézio winning the Académie Française’s Grand Prix Paul Morand that year.
About Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio is a contemporary French author who has written dozens of novels, short stories and essays to date. He was awarded France’s prestigious Prix Renaudot for his first novel, The Interrogation, in 1963, marking the beginning of an illustrious literary career that culminated with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008 for his writing on “new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy” and his exploration of “a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation”.
Product details
ISBN | 9782808010900 |
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Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
Collection | BrightSummaries.com |
Format | |
Pages | 66 |
File size | 2.2 MB |