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Le Clezio's Spiritual Quest (Hardcover, New edition)
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Le Clezio's Spiritual Quest (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures, 203
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Le Clezio's Spiritual Quest is the first English language book to
address the development of this Nobel Prize winner's spiritual
ideas and the first book in any language to focus on his abiding
interest in the philosophy of Parmenides, Sufism, and Meso-American
religion. Le Clezio's Spiritual Quest explains many puzzling
features of his work from this philosophical perspective, including
the relative absence of dialogue in his novels and short stories,
his portrayals of mystical experiences, his intensely poetic prose,
his treatment of time as the repetition of history, and his
struggles to develop a persuasive ethical system. Le Clezio is not
merely postcolonial, he creates a new kind of spiritual
understanding of the cosmos by drawing on sources that have little
connection to the main religious and spiritual traditions of the
Western and Eastern worlds. Le Clezio's Spiritual Quest offers an
important supplement to French studies of his work, which have
explored his works in the context of his French sources. It
concludes with a consideration of artistic dilemmas posed by this
Nobel Prize-winning author, whose experimental fiction merges
poetry, essay, fiction, and philosophy in ways that are
enlightening, fresh, and yet often challenging to read. This book
guides undergraduate and graduate students of French literature as
well as scholars of literature and contemporary ideas to reflect on
Le Clezio as a representation of a new direction in philosophical
and spiritual voyaging because of his remarkable independence from
many contemporary debates and his choice to seek new foundations
for human thought in dead religions and what many have considered
marginal philosophical and religious traditions.
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