World Book Club: J.M.G. Le Clezio
Nobel prize winner JMG Le Clezio discusses his acclaimed novel Desert.
World Book Club · BBC World Service
April 3, 201052m 59s
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Show Notes
French Nobel Laureate JMG Le Clezio talks to Harriett Gilbert in front of an invited studio audience about his recently-translated work Desert.
Contrasting the beauty of a lost culture in the North African desert with a depiction of Europe seen through the eyes of unwanted immigrants, the novel is a rich, poetic and provocative epic about colonization and its legacy, which is still painfully relevant after 30 years.