La Fièvre

Le Clézio’s second published book, appearing two years after Le Procès-verbal, La Fièvre is a collection of short stories about small, passing moments of madness, drawn from “familiar experience.” Still gripped by the anguish of city life, Le Clézio writes in a register of near-physical rage: pain, toothache, fatigue and sleeplessness run throughout La Fièvre, denouncing the loss of control over the body, the senses, and, more broadly, over modern society itself.

A fine copy.