La Fièvre
Paris, Gallimard, (February 18) 1965.
1 vol. (140 x 205 mm) of 230 p. and [4] f. In wrappers.
First edition. Press copy, stamped as such.
Presentation copy inscribed by Le Clézio to Max-Pol Fouchet: “à Monsieur Max-Pol Fouchet avec respect, admiration, estime, J. M. G. Le Clézio.”
Presentation copy inscribed by Le Clézio to Max-Pol Fouchet: “à Monsieur Max-Pol Fouchet avec respect, admiration, estime, J. M. G. Le Clézio.”
Le Clézio’s second published book, appearing two years after Le Procès-verbal, La Fièvre is a collection of short stories about small, passing forms of madness, drawn from “familiar experience.” Still gripped by the anguish of city life, Le Clézio writes here in a state of near-rage: pain, toothache, fatigue and sleeplessness run throughout La Fièvre, denouncing a loss of control over the body, the senses, and, more broadly, over modern society.
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