Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur
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| Author | J. M. G. Le Clézio |
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| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Mercure de France Collection Bleue,Paris |
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1964 |
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| OCLC | 13224066 |
Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur is a novella written in French by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. It is one of the first published texts he wrote. This novella was published in book form after the famous Le Procès-Verbal (The Official Report), his first novel which won the Renaudot Prize in 1963. This novella was also included in a collection of short stories entitled La fièvre (The Fever), (pages 60 to 87).
Le Jour où fit connaissance avec sa douleur could be translated as The Day Beaumont Became Acquainted with His Pain or, The Day Beaumont Got to Know Hs Pain.
There is a review in a blog called The Valve, where this novella was mentioned as having piqued the author's interest because of an opening paragraph written in the same style as Malone Meurt (Malone Dies):
The first time Beaumont became acquainted with his pain, he was in bed, and it must have been twenty-five past three in the morning. He turned over on the mattress, painfully, and felt the resistance of those bed-covers which took part in his turning, while in an incongruous way, opposing it. It was as if an invisible hand had twisted the material around his torso as well as his unmoving hips.
"Le jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur." Paris, page à page. Textes choisis et annotés par Pierre-Edmond Robert. (Texts selected and annotated by Pierre-Edmond Robert.) Hatier: Dider, Paris, 191p.e
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