Storm / Two novellas / JMGLe Clezio / Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 Once again it is carried away by specious of JMG Le Clézio storytelling talent. This "vintage" is exceptional, dune imagination of a fruit and inimitable style, finesse, sensitivity and lightness to tell dramatic if not tragic facts. The words scroll fast as ethereal, yet powerful and overwhelming. No unnecessary word to narrate the torments of each of its heroines. Everything is in sobriety, conciseness for greater evocative power. A major work. The action of the first novella, entitled Storm, kind of short novel, happens in Dudo island off southern South Korea, where women have always dive, snorkeling, to harvest abalone. A storm is raging on the island then. Philip Kyo, writer and journalist, plagued by a troubled past, returns decades later in this island where he met the love with Mary Song. There's going to do the smart dune teenager meets and very critical of the world that surrounds, June, a ray of sunshine in his life reminiscences charged with melancholy. June, which will believe to have found in him a father has never known what, and then without lavouer, séprendre this rather cold man, still haunted by a tragic past differently, and looking gift knows what. Kyo then book: "Chance has placed in my path an angel, an innocent and funny child. For the first time in years I met a human being. " Monologues are June dune absolute beauty, a small thirteen that will make learning the life, not understanding that this unspoken love for Mr. Kyo is impossible, a love that will let skewed, hurt, depressed, rolled. And we live and suffer with the characters, especially with June who discovers life and its vicissitudes, she na in life that his mother, fisherwoman dormeaux often absent. A mother who dunique naturally will become essential. "What does the word when we never see again? I hate the courtesies and good manners. I hate political speeches and moral lessons. "(June) The second novella entitled "A woman without identity" is all in the same freshness of great sensitivity and of great style, a childs style appropriate to the circumstances. A style that evolves with the age of his heroine. Rachel as June will make learning the life dune life she does not know from where it comes. Uprooted, without past or future, no name, no purpose, no memory, his quest didentité is pathetic, dramatic, delivered to the nitty-gritty, and rejection, part adrift and wandering in complete moral solitude. At the point of saying, "When people are afraid of you, is that they see you. You exist. " Born in Ivory Coast living in a family that does not seem to him to be his, Rachel will live disputes between his father and stepmother, a woman na constantly tell him what is the child of the devil, and what will hate to the point of saying from this moment, "javais grew a sudden and never more I would a child. " The tribulations following the departure of Ivory Coast for the Paris region will be painful for Rachel. The descent into hell and destruction will make it touch the bottom to the point that it seems impossible to turn the corner, when one has lost any illusion: "It should remain modest over the ability of others to understand you. I do not even speak of love, but just tolerance, perhaps this is the lesson of this story. Sil absolutely must be a lesson to the story, which is not sure either. " Through these two novellas, Le Clézio perfect mastery of his subject so; and talent to stage two teenage girls, June and Rachel, is unparalleled; he is a keen observer of our society and its suffering.
