| Mondo et autres histoires | |
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| Author(s) | J. M. G. Le Clézio |
| Original title | Mondo et autres histoires |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Genre(s) | Short story collection |
| Publisher | Gallimard, Paris |
| Publication date | 1978 |
| Pages | 379 pp |
| ISBN | 978-2-07-038676-5 |
| OCLC Number | 299465126 |
Mondo et autres histoires is the title of a set of short stories written in French by French author and Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio .
Very visual language in a series of dreamlike settings.
Contents |
This collection of short stories is presented in this order:
This is a story about a boy who may have had many friends but who never actually had a family of his own.[1]
Jon takes part in a cycling event and gets to climb a mountain where it seems to Jon that everything is beautiful. In this story the author uses metaphors parallel to the one used by Christ: like when Jon meets a child who speaks as would a prophet.[1]
Jub is the king of a city. The city is described as if it were ancient and it may just be that this city is in ruins because the reader senses being shown a mirage when reading this story.[1]
Daniel dreams of the sea and one day he flees school to explore a part of the sea for himself.[1]
Alia loves Martin, who tells stories about a land called Hazaran, although the latter is a hermit living outside the village. There is a man telling stories and this man guides his community by fasting.[1]
The People of the sky tells the story of a girl named Petite Croix ,who spends the day sitting on the edge of a cliff and searching for answers to a question: what is blue?[1].
People of the sky and "shepherds" (Les Bergers) are the two novellas that were extracted from "Mondo et autres histoires" and published together, but without the other stories in book form [2].
In English the term "shepherds" is the equivalent to the French term "Le Bergers". This is the story of Gaspar, who went missing but discovers fronds and learns how to herd animals as well as the pleasure of having meals around the fire.[1]
"Mondo"is movie in the French language with English subtitles about a 10-year-old gypsy boy.
"Mondo" was co-written and directed by Tony Gatlif based on the short story as written by J. M. G. Le Clézio(1995)[3]
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