The Main Experiences of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio

Jean-Marie Gustave le Clezio, a famous French writer, was born in 1940. He is one of the representative writers of French Neo-Fable School in the second half of the 20th century and one of the leading figures in French literature today. He, modiano and Perek are also called "French Samsung". In the survey of French readers from 65438 to 0994, Clezio became the most popular writer. Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008.

Le Clezio's representative works include Proceedings, War, Wandering Stars and Hunger Episode.

Chinese Name: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio

Mbth: Jean-Maricourt Stavelezio

Alias: Le Clezio

Nationality: France

Place of birth: Nice, a coastal city in France.

Date of birth:1April 94013rd.

Occupation: writer

Major achievements: Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008.

Representative works: Proceedings, War, Hunger Episode.

Character experience

1April 940 13, Le Clezio was born in the French coastal city of Nice. Born during World War II, Le Clezio spent most of his childhood in a mountain village under the shadow of German occupation troops and Nazis. Although living in a small village in the south, the war still left an indelible impression on Le Clezio, and these memories were later reflected in his works.

1947, Le Clezio was 8 years old. He embarked on a journey to Africa and went to Nigeria with his mother and brother to visit his father, who was a wartime doctor of the British army there. It was during this nearly one-month trip that he began his initial writing.

1949, when Le Clezio 10 was old, he and his family returned to Nice.

1957 After graduating from high school, he studied English at the University of Bristol, England, and then returned to Nice College of Literature, France. 1963 received a bachelor's degree in literature, and published his first novel, Litigation Notes, which was considered as comparable to Camus's The Outsider by critics at that time.

1964, Le Clezio, who was studying in Aix-Provence College of Literature, wrote a master's thesis entitled "Loneliness in Henry Mishau's Works" and obtained the diploma of higher education necessary for obtaining the qualification as a teacher. After that, Le Clezio came to New Mexico and taught literature in Albuquerque.

From 65438 to 0967, Le Clezio went to Thailand for military service as a member of the Youth Overseas Cooperation Team. Because of exposing local children's prostitution, Le Clezio was deported and sent to Mexico to continue his military service until the end of his military service.

From 65438 to 0970, Le Clezio was employed by the French Latin American Institute in Mexico, became a staff member of the Institute, and participated in the establishment of the library of the Institute. During this period, he deeply loved Mexico and the Indians there: in the dense forests of Panama, Le Clezio lived with Embera Indians and Werner Indians and studied their lifestyles. After that, Le Clezio came to Michoacá n in central Mexico to associate with the Huikauer Indians living there. At the University of Mexico City, Le Clezio also studied several local languages, such as Mayan and Navarra, and discovered local religious classics. The experience of living with Mexican Indians from 1970 to 1974 left a deep impression on Le Clezio's works. He said: "This experience has changed my life, changed my view of the world and art, changed the way I get along with people, walked, ate, fell in love, slept, and even went deep into my dreams." Indeed, all his works draw nutrients from his many trips. Many trips abroad, "make"

Le Clezio's works have poetic mystery. This is the death of old customs and the birth of a new life. It seeks a world that mankind has long lost. After that, Le Clezio continued to teach in Albuquerque.

1977, le Clezio translated and published the Mayan theological work The Prophecy of Hiram Balaam.

1978, the National Scientific Research Center under the French Ministry of Education rejected Le Clezio's application as a researcher. So Le Clezio went to Africa, traveled all over the desert with his wife Jermia, and stayed in mauritius island for many years. After that, he taught in Bangkok, Mexico City, Boston, Austin and Albuquerque.

From 65438 to 0983, Le Clezio completed his doctoral thesis at the American Institute in Perpignan, France. The content of the thesis was about the Mexican state of Michoacá n. Because Le Clezio had long been concerned about ethnic minorities, in the late 1980s, Le Clezio became a member of the Honorary Committee of Survival International.

Since the 1990s, Le Clezio has become a world writer, living with his wife in Albuquerque and Mauritius, and returning to France from time to time, or living in Nice, or living in a cabin in Duverney Bay, Brittany.

From 65438 to 0995, Le Clezio published the novel Forty Days. 1996, Forty Days won the TV Audience Award of France Television Group.

From 265438 to the beginning of the 20th century, Le Clezio, with a keen interest in foreign cultures, went to South Korea to study local history, mythology and shamanism, and also served as a professor at Ewha University.

In February 2006, Le Clezio was awarded the "265438+Best Foreign Novel Award in the 20th Century in 2006" by People's Literature Publishing House and China Foreign Literature Society.

In early 2008, the Chinese version of Urana was published in China.

In June 2008, Le Clezio won a literary prize named after Swedish writer Stig Daillere Mann.

Issued by Nobel Prize in Literature on February 65438, 2008.

On June 65438+1 October1day, 2009, Le Clezio won the French Fourth-Class Medal of Honor.

On August 20 1 1, he was hired as an honorary professor of Nanjing university.

20 13 12 3, employed as honorary professor of Guangdong university of foreign studies.

On September 26th, 20 15, he attended the first Nanjing Youth Culture Week and delivered a speech.

Personal life

Le Clezio's ancestors first lived in Brittany, northwest France, and moved to mauritius island in the Indian Ocean in the18th century. Le Clezio's father's name is Raoul and his mother's name is Simone, both of whom are from Mauritius. Le Clezio's father is a British citizen. Le Clezio, like her mother, has dual French and Mauritian citizenship.

196 1 year, le Clezio married Rosalie Pimulder. They have a daughter named Patricia.

1975, Le Clezio married his second wife, who came from Jamia in the southern Moroccan desert. They have a daughter named Anna.

Main work

Creative characteristics

Theme of the work

Le Clezio's creation can be divided into two stages.

The first phase lasts from 1963 to 1975. At this stage, Le Clezio mainly discussed topics such as madness, speech and writing, and made great innovations in form. At that time, Le Clezio existed as an innovative and rebellious writer. He exposed the barbarism of western cities, and Le Clezio was appreciated by michel foucault and Gilles Deleuze.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Le Clezio's second creative stage began to take shape. Le Clezio began to explore more personalized and autobiographical themes. Concern for ethnic minorities, the attraction of travel, childhood and so on have all become the favorite themes of Le Clezio. Le Clezio's works are based on his many travels and American Indian culture. Le Clezio mentioned travel and different cultures in his works, especially in Latin America, Africa and Oceania. Profit, progress and comfort are not the values that Le Clezio is interested in. His writing is concise, concise and vivid. Le Clezio's works are regarded as a criticism of western materialism, and his creation is based on caring for the weak and the abandoned, "excavating the most tragic and true things, finding out the tearing language that can arouse emotions and turn the night into a shadow, and questioning the norms of traditional literature".

Artistic feature

From the artistic point of view, Le Clezio has unremitting pursuit and development, which can be said to be deliberately seeking novelty and difference, rather than sticking to a model. His greatest feature is meticulous observation and description. He built a transparent castle isolated from reality with beautiful words, with a slightly loose structure, disorderly accumulation and incoherent content. For example, there are newspaper clippings, phone book pages, object lists and even typesetting games in writing, which are obviously formalistic in nature, and it can be seen that the author deliberately did it. However, in his later works, he gradually began to use a variety of artistic techniques to describe objects carefully and appropriately, which made people think of new novels. The incoherent and meaningless dialogue of the characters reminds people of the absurd drama: many metaphors with great leaps can be said to be symbolic and have the characteristics of "telling philosophy through a story"

In narrative style, Le Clezio's novels have many similarities with the new tradition in the French novel environment: first, the linear chain of cause and effect and the strict logic of plot are almost abandoned by Le Clezio in his nearly half-century creation; Secondly, the unity of time and space centered on the characters hardly exists, and the identity of the characters is almost uncertain, but the narrator is everywhere, and he has always been integrated with the characters, breaking the time and space boundaries that may limit the development of narrative.

Early Le Clezio almost completely ignored the linear development of narrative, and inserted many non-narrative factors into the narrative: pictures, newspaper clippings, lyrics, placards, various symbols, and even his own invented language. However, after the 1980s, although the linearity of time is still not the primary narrative factor for the author, and the author uses many modern narrative methods such as polyphony and multi-perspectives, the plot dominated by characters and made progress due to the changes in the relationship between characters or between characters and their surroundings has restored some sociality and logic, thus making Le Clezio bid farewell to the so-called "automatic writing" era.

On the contrary, another important factor language corresponding to narrative structure is Le Clezio's eternal classic label. Le Clezio's language has always been simple and pure, as if to find the natural meaning of words before the flood. It is a song that can complement the songs of the wind, the sea and the world. Carefully using complex long sentences and complex tense structures, but at the same time strictly observing French grammar norms, makes Le Clezio the first choice for editing French language textbooks. In fact, Le Clezio's language style is completely consistent with the overall theme of his works: as a material entity and the only way for human beings to enter, feel and create the real world, language is only in its simplest state, even without boundaries.

Personality influence

Le Clezio, like all ambitious novelists, has been devoted to building a self-sufficient world. Clezio said: "I think the world is wider than God, and I think God's thoughts are contained in the world." He tried to express the world he created in a strange way in an instant. He wants to create the world, so he says he is the God who can create the world.

In Nobel Prize in Literature's award speech, Le Clezio's works were described as "a new journey, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy". Le Clezio, who started writing at the age of seven or eight, did explore "human beings outside the mainstream civilization and human nature hidden for civilization" with literature, as commented. Whether it is the experimental fantasy in the early stage, the simple popularity in the later stage, or the reality in the fantasy, Le Clezio's novels are like a "new fable" looking for human nature, exploring the division of contemporary civilization and exploring human nature under the cover of material. Literature is the art of human beings, the spirit is always higher than suffering, and the truth of literature can destroy the world built by lies. Behind Le Clezio's elegant writing, strong lyricism and diluted metaphor vaguely reveal a mockery of the secular. Only works that pay attention to human nature, represent the most universal value direction of human beings and ultimately promote human civilization and social progress can reach the hearts of readers.

Winning record

Personality assessment

Yu Zhongxian, a professor, writer and translator of Le Clezio's works at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: He is a cosmopolitan.

Xu Jun, a professor at Nanjing University and a translator of Le Clezio's works, is a critic and a thinker.

Yuan Xiaoyi, a professor at East China Normal University and a translator of Le Clezio's works, is a romantic who listens to his heart.

French literary translator Jin Longge: a humanist writer who pays attention to marginal figures.

In 2008, the Swedish Academy explained Le Clezio's reason for winning the prize in the Nobel Prize in Literature Prize announcement, calling him "a writer who marked a new beginning of literature, a writer who took risks in writing poetry and was fascinated by his senses, and an explorer who explored a kind of human nature outside and under the dominant civilization".

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