Cœur brûle et autres romances
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Cœur brûle et autres romances is the title of a collection of short stories written in French
by French
author and Nobel laureate
J. M. G. Le Clézio.
whether since Cœur brûlé et autres romances is partly set in Mexico,could it be said that the two sisters are victims of a nomadic life?
Le Clézio answered that these two sisters " are victims of having belonged to two different cultures at the same time. It is very difficult for children to relate to two cultures as different as Mexican culture, which is more of an immediate, street, outside culture, and European culture which is based on the home, the indoors and school rules. It was the clash of cultures that I wanted to recount".
Chanda then asked "So why a "romance"? to which Le Clézio replied "This was a slightly ironic word to describe some tragic situations. The book consists of seven dark short stories."
Le Clézio continued by saying that"in romantic fiction feeling takes precedence over sociological truth. I think that the role of fiction is to highlight this constant slippage between emotion and the social, real, world. On the other hand, all the stories in this collection are based on actual events that I have adapted. So they are true stories. They have an element of the "sentimentality" that you also find in the "News in Brief" pages of the newspapers".
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
by French
France
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author and Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize in Literature
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
J. M. G. Le Clézio.
Interview with Le Clézio
In an interview conducted by Tirthankar Chanda with Le Clézio,Chanda askswhether since Cœur brûlé et autres romances is partly set in Mexico,could it be said that the two sisters are victims of a nomadic life?
Le Clézio answered that these two sisters " are victims of having belonged to two different cultures at the same time. It is very difficult for children to relate to two cultures as different as Mexican culture, which is more of an immediate, street, outside culture, and European culture which is based on the home, the indoors and school rules. It was the clash of cultures that I wanted to recount".
Chanda then asked "So why a "romance"? to which Le Clézio replied "This was a slightly ironic word to describe some tragic situations. The book consists of seven dark short stories."
Le Clézio continued by saying that"in romantic fiction feeling takes precedence over sociological truth. I think that the role of fiction is to highlight this constant slippage between emotion and the social, real, world. On the other hand, all the stories in this collection are based on actual events that I have adapted. So they are true stories. They have an element of the "sentimentality" that you also find in the "News in Brief" pages of the newspapers".
Seven short stories
The book consists of seven dark short stories- Coeur brûle
- Chercher l'aventure
- Hôtel de la Solitude
- Trois aventurières
- Kalima
- Vent du Sud
- Trésor