La fièvre is the title of a set of short stories written in French

French language

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 author and Nobel laureate

Nobel Prize in Literature

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 J. M. G. Le Clézio and translated into English by Daphne Woodward as Fever and published by Atheneum.

Contents

A collection of nine short stories or novellas .The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 Bio-bibliography mentions this as one of the books in which in which the author "aludes to his own perception of the trouble and fear reigning in some cities in the western world".

• Introductory Letter (by Le Clézio);
• La fièvre (Fever)
• Le jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur(The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain)
  Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur
  Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleuris a novella written in French by French author and Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio. It is one of the first published texts written by Le Clézio...
  
  
• me semble que le bateau se dirige vers lîle (It Seems to Me the Boat is Heading for the Island)
• (Backwards)
• (The Walking Man)
• Martin(Martin)
• (The World is Alive)
• (Then I shall be able to Find Peace and Slumber)
• (A Day of Old Age)

First French language edition

This French language

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...

 collection of short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...