L’Inconnu sur la terre

Name: L'Inconnu sur la terre
SKU: 19612
Price: 1200 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: J. M. G. Le Clézio

Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Le Chemin", (February 14) 1978.

1 vol. (140 x 210 mm) of 325 p. and [1] f. Half brown morocco with bands, gilt title and top edge, date gilt at foot, original wrappers and spine preserved, matching edged slipcase (binding signed Loutrel-Delaporte).

First edition.

One of 26 deluxe copies on white Holland Van Gelder laid paper (no. 3).

“I want to write for the beauty of the gaze, for the purity of language. […] I want to write to stand on the side of animals and children, on the side of those who see the world as it is, who know all its beauty […].” This programmatic sentence from L’Inconnu sur la terre was quoted in Le Monde on 11 October 2008 by Patrick Kechichian, when he announced the award of the Nobel Prize to J.-M. G. Le Clézio, describing it as emblematic of the “poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy” recognized by the Swedish Academy.

L’Inconnu sur la terre remains one of Le Clézio’s most private books: a visionary meditation on humanity’s future, composed of poetic reflections punctuated with light sketches, tracing a spiritual journey that had, almost providentially, run its course. Between 1967 and 1978, Le Clézio’s path had led him through Mexico, where he encountered another Indian world, that of Mesoamerica, the Huichol Indians of the Sierra Madre and the Emberá of Panama.

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