Lullaby is the title of a novel written in French

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 .

Plot summary

The adolescent Lullaby strolls the beaches, cliffs and caves on the outskirts of her home town (this is situated in an unnamed Mediterranean environment). Her getting in groove with the ocean and the elements is what gets her going, and finally she can return to the life she once knew as meaningless, only now adding a bit of meaning to it.

Publication history

First French edition
Second French editionRe-Print 1997
Third French edition
Fourth French edition