[zlopikanikanza]

Since the beggining of the book you can easily say, this is not Le Clezio's typical writing, and yes, by the time you advance into the book you can see it's not, despite you can see traces of the future novelist he later become. Le D?luge was written when the future Nobel was only 26 years old. You can see a young writer still consolidating his style. In this book he is clearly influenced by the existentialist novel of the 60's with such important figures at that time like Sartre and Camus.
Here's the plot

Francois Besson is looking trough his window when suddenly a symbolic vision caught his eye. At the time a siren can be heard over the city a young girl riding a motorcycle appears and dissappears once the sound of the siren is gone. Since that moment Besson's life change and he realizes "everything is rotten now, and I Francois Besson can see death everywhere".
From that point starts Besson's journal through 13 days, where he meets several people, listens to the confession of a suicidal friend, a travels through the city, describing deeply and lyrically every corner and every act he sees.

The novel starts and finishes with a monologue, a very long one that makes a very dull initiation of a novel. If you're able to overcome this beggining you can see a very fluent and at moments beautiful descriptions of situations, places and attitudes, where the rain is always present and words are flowing at the compass of the rain. The flood of words is inevitable at some moments, sometimes you can thing you're drowning, and sometimes you are delighted with the way the water flows through you.

Still, I don't know what was Le Clezio trying to say with this novel. Still very early and adolescent for what he has achieved since.

[iceleliewBync]

Oof that 40 page prelude is completely incomprehensible. Definitely prefer his later work.