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**OvDojQXN** · 12-03-2008, 05:38 PM

This is the first Le Cl?zio I've read, and supposedly not the best starting point - most people who have read him suggest his debut Le Proc?s-Verbal (The Interrogation) as a sampler of his early avant-garde work...

I started The Interrogation earlier in the week, decided it wasn't suited to the stop start effect of a bus journey and set it aside for another day. Truth be told, I was finding it hard to concentrate and by the end of the first chapter I knew I'd had to go back and read it again to pick up everything I'd missed. Emphasis on everything.

So I started Terra Amata today on the grounds that it's the smallest of the eight Le Cl?zio books (seven novels, one of short stories) I've picked up recently. You're not wrong about the details - the book is swimming in them. The scene where all of nature has its names, on writing the history of the world is wonderful, and the opening Chancelade scene playing God to beetles is fun, in the way that pulling the legs off insects, back in the day, was fun.

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OvDojQXN Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	This is the first Le Cl?zio I've read, and supposedly not the best starting point - most people who have read him suggest his debut Le Proc?s-Verbal (The Interrogation) as a sampler of his early avant-garde work... I started The Interrogation earlier in the week, decided it wasn't suited to the stop start effect of a bus journey and set it aside for another day. Truth be told, I was finding it hard to concentrate and by the end of the first chapter I knew I'd had to go back and read it again to pick up everything I'd missed. Emphasis on everything. So I started Terra Amata today on the grounds that it's the smallest of the eight Le Cl?zio books (seven novels, one of short stories) I've picked up recently. You're not wrong about the details - the book is swimming in them. The scene where all of nature has its names, on writing the history of the world is wonderful, and the opening Chancelade scene playing God to beetles is fun, in the way that pulling the legs off insects, back in the day, was fun.
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