Country France Publication date 1964 Originally published 1964 Preceded by The Interrogation OCLC 13224066 | Language French Media type Print Genre Novel | |
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Publisher Mercure de France Collection Bleue,Paris Similar J M G Le Clézio books, Novels | ||
Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur is a novella written in French by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. It is one of the first published texts he wrote. This novella was published in book form after the famous Le Procès-Verbal (The Official Report), his first novel which won the Renaudot Prize in 1963. This novella was also included in a collection of short stories entitled La fièvre (The Fever), (pages 60 to 87).
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Title in English
Le Jour où fit connaissance avec sa douleur could be translated as The Day Beaumont Became Acquainted with His Pain or, The Day Beaumont Got to Know Hs Pain.
Reviews
There is a review in a blog called The Valve, where this novella was mentioned as having piqued the author's interest because of an opening paragraph written in the same style as Malone Meurt (Malone Dies):
French magazine
"Le jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur." Paris, page à page. Textes choisis et annotés par Pierre-Edmond Robert. (Texts selected and annotated by Pierre-Edmond Robert.) Hatier: Dider, Paris, 191p.e
First French Edition
Second French Edition
Salles H et V – Littératures d’expression française – [84/4 LECL 4 jour]