Mondo et autres histoires
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Mondo et autres histoires is the title of a set of short stories written in French
French language
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 by French
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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 .

Very visual language in a series of dreamlike settings.

Mondo

This is a story about a boy who may have had many friends but who never actually had a family of his own.

La montagne du dieu vivant

Jon takes part in a cycling event and gets to climb a mountain where it seems to Jon that everything is beautiful. In this story the author uses metaphors parallel to the one used by Christ
Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...

: like when Jon meets a child who speaks as would a prophet
Prophet
In religion, a prophet, from the Greek word προφήτης profitis meaning "foreteller", is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people...

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La roue d'eau

Jub is the king of a city. The city is described as if it were ancient and it may just be that this city is in ruins because the reader senses being shown a mirage
Mirage
A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirare, meaning "to look at, to wonder at"...

 when reading this story.

Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer

Daniel dreams of the sea and one day he flees school to explore a part of the sea for himself.

Hazaran

Alia loves Martin, who tells stories about a land called Hazaran, although the latter is a hermit
Hermit
A hermit is a person who lives, to some degree, in seclusion from society.In Christianity, the term was originally applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Desert Theology of the Old Testament .In the...

 living outside the village. There is a man telling stories and this man guides his community by fasting.

Peuple du ciel

The People of the sky tells the story of a girl named Petite Croix ,who spends the day sitting on the edge of a cliff and searching for answers to a question: what is blue?.

Peuple du ciel published other than in Mondo et autres histoires

People of the sky and "shepherds" (Les Bergers) are the two novellas that were extracted from "Mondo et autres histoires" and published together, but without the other stories in book form .

Les bergers

In English the term "shepherds" is the equivalent to the French term "Le Bergers". This is the story of Gaspar, who went missing but discovers fronds and learns how to herd animals as well as the pleasure of having meals around the fire.

Fourth French Edition

12th re-Print Gallimard,Paris 2008 (With new author biography) and 2000 (Reprint: 1982 ed)

Mondo for the cinema

"Mondo"is movie in the French language with English subtitles about a 10-year-old gypsy boy.
"Mondo" was co-written and directed by Tony Gatlif
Tony Gatlif
Tony Gatlif is a French film director of Romani ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer.- Biography :...

 based on the short story as written by J. M. G. Le Clézio(1995)
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