Une lettre de J.M.G. Le Clezio
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"Une lettre de J.M.G. Le Clezio"is an essay written by French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 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.

Revue des Deux Mondes

Une lettre de J.M.G. Le Clezio"(2006-05-30)was first published by Revue des Deux Mondes,Paris( issue no.7) on pages 75–77
.There were3 pages

Subject

The letter Le Clezio wrote in response to a letter by Michel Crépu referring to Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish author James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's...

 has the subject line :"VOYAGER, MEDITER" 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...

 which would translate into English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

as being "to travel and to carefully consider" or "meditate".

Publication history

REVUE DES DEUX MONDES, no. 7/8, (2006): 75–77;British Library Serials:BL Shelfmark: 7898.300000
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