J. M. G. Le Clézio bibliography

This is a list of works by J. M. G. Le Clézio, the French Nobel Laureate.

Novels

Title in French	English translation	Date of French publication	Date of English publication
Le Procès-Verbal	The Interrogation	1963	1963
Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur	-----------	1964	-----------
Le Livre des fuites	The Book of Flights: An Adventure Story	1965	1971
Le Déluge	The Flood	1966	1967
Terra amata	Terra Amata	1969	1969
La Guerre	War	1970	1973
Les Géants	The Giants	1973	1975
Voyages de l'autre côté	-----------	1975	-----------
Désert	Desert	1980	2009
Lullaby	-----------	1980	-----------
Le Chercheur d'or	The prospector	1985	1993
La Grande Vie	the Great Life	1986	1986
Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer(suivi de La Montagne ou le dieu vivant)	The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea	1988	2008
Onitsha	Onitsha	1991	1997
Étoile errante	Wandering Star.	1992	2004
La Quarantaine	-----------	1995	-----------
Poisson d'or	-----------	1997	-----------
Hasard suivi de Angoli Mala	-----------	1999	-----------
Villa Aurore	-----------	1999	-----------
Fantômes dans la rue	-----------	2000	-----------
Révolutions	-----------	2003	-----------
Ourania	-----------	2006	-----------
Voyage au pays des arbres	-----------	2007	-----------
Ritournelle de la faim	-----------	2008	-----------
Alma	-----------	2017	-----------	-

Children's books

Title in French	English translation	Date of French publication	Date of English publication
Lullaby	-----------	1980 ISBN 978-3-425-04914-4	-----------
La Grande Vie suivi de Peuple du ciel	La Grande Vie translated as The Great Life Peuple du ciel has not been translated into English	1980 ISBN 978-3-425-04861-1 ISBN 978-2-07-055179-8	1986
Peuple du ciel, suivi de 'Les Bergers	---------	1981 ISBN 978-2-07-042676-8	---------
Balaabilou	---------	1985 ISBN 978-2-07-054218-5	---------
Villa Aurore	---------	1999 ISBN 978-0-320-07922-1	---------
Villa Aurore; suivi de, Orlamonde	---------	1998 ISBN 978-2-07-051396-3	---------
L'enfant de sous le pont	-----------	2000 ISBN 2-914471-18-1	-----------
Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer suivi de La Montagne ou le dieu vivant	Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer translated into English as The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea. La Montagne ou le dieu vivant has not been translated into English	2002 ISBN 978-2-07-051394-9	2008 ISSN 0028-792X
Voyage au pays des arbres	-----------	2007 ISBN 978-2-07-053665-8	-----------

Short stories

La Fièvre

Translated by Daphne Woodward in 1966 as "The Fever"

#	Original French	English translation
Introductory Letter	-	Introductory Letter (by Le Clezio)
1	La fièvre	Fever
2	Le jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur	The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain
3	me semble que le bateau se dirige vers lîle	It Seems to Me the Boat is Heading for the Island
4	-	Backwards
5	-	The Walking Man
6	Martin	Martin
7	-	The World is Alive
8	-	Then I shall be able to Find Peace and Slumber
9	-	A Day of Old Age

Mondo et autres histoires

#	Original French	English translation
1	Mondo	-
2	Lullaby	-
3	La montagne du dieu vivant	-
4	Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer	The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea
5	Hazaran	-
6	Martin	-
7	Peuple du ciel	-
8	Les bergers	-

La ronde et autres faits divers

"La ronde et autres faits divers" was translated into English as "The Round & Other Cold Hard Facts" by C. Dickson.

#	Original French	English translation
1	La ronde	The Round
2	Moloch	Moloch
3	L'échappé	The Escapee
4	Ariane	Ariadne
5	Villa Aurore	Villa Aurore
6	Le jeu d'Anne	Anne's Game
7	La grande vie	The Great Life
8	Le passeur	The Runner
9	O voleur, voleur, quelle vie est la tienne?	O Thief What Is the Life You Lead?
10	Orlamonde	Yondaland
11	David	David

Printemps et autres saisons

#	Original French	English translation
1	Printemps	-
2	Fascination	-
3	Le temps ne passe pas	-
4	Zinna	-
5	La saison des pluies	The Rainy Season

Awaité Pawana

#	Original French	English translation	Pages
1	Awaité Pawana	Pawana

La Fête chantée et autres essais de thème amérindien

#	Original French	English translation
1	La féte chantée	-
2	Trois livres indiens	-
3	La conquête divine du Michoacan	-
4	De la féte à la guerre	-
5	Le rêve d'or de l'Amérique indienne	-
6	Les Chichimèques Indigénisme et révolution	-
7	Mythes amérindiens et littérature	-
8	La corne d'abondance	-
9	Jacobo Daciano à Tarecuato	-
10	Trois célébrations du Mexique	-
11	Peuple des oiseaux	-
12	Dzibilnocac, écrit de nuit	-
13	La voix indienne: Rigoberta Menchú	-
14	Toutes choses sont liées	-
15	La danse contre le déluge.	-

Cœur brûle et autres romances

#	Original French	English translation
1	Cœur brûle	No translation. Literally, "Heart burns (and other romances")
2	Trois aventurières	Literally, "Three Adventuresses"
3	Trésor	Literally, "Treasure"
4	-	-
5	-	-
6	-	-
7	-	-

Tabataba suivi de pawana

#	Original French	English translation	Pages
1	Tabataba	-
2	pawana	-

Essays

French title	French publication form	English translation	English publication form	French publication date	English publication date
Le Rêve mexicain ou la pensée interrompue	Book ISBN 978-2-07-032680-8	The Mexican Dream, or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations	Book ISBN 978-0-226-11002-8.	1965	1993
Conversations avec J.M.G. Le Clézio	Journal Mercure de France OCLC 498529	------------	------------	1971	------------
Haï	Book ISBN 978-2-605-00112-5	------------	------------	1971	------------
Mydriase	Book ISBN 978-2-85194-071-1	------------	------------	1973	------------
Vers les icebergs (Essai sur Henri Michaux)	Book ISBN 978-2-85194-059-9	------------	------------	1978	------------
L'Inconnu sur la Terre	Book ISBN 978-2-07-075488-5	------------	------------	1978	------------
Trois Villes saintes	Book ISBN 978-2-07-021811-0	------------	------------	1980	------------
Dans la maison d'Edith	Journal and online publication OCLC 60619315	------------	------------	1997	------------
Sur Lautréamont	Book ISBN 978-2-87027-216-9	------------	------------	1987	------------
Diego et Frida	Book ISBN 978-2-234-02617-9	------------	------------	1993	------------
Ailleurs	Interview Jean-Louis Ezine with Le Clézio ISBN 978-2-86959-244-5	------------	------------	1995	------------
Enfances	Introduction to Enfances: photographies de Christophe Kuhn ISBN 2-9510433-1-7	------------	------------	1998-06-26	------------
Le Llano en flammes	Preface to French edition of El Llano en Llamas originally written in Spanish by Juan Rulfo ISBN 978-0-292-70132-8	------------	------------	2003-11-20	------------
L'Extase matérielle	Book ISBN 978-2-07-023824-8	------------	------------	1967	------------
L'Africain	Autobiographical essay published as a book ISBN 978-2-7152-2470-4	------------	------------	2004	------------
Une lettre de J.M.G. Le Clezio	Journal (Revue des Deux Mondes) and online publication ISSN 0750-9278	------------	------------	1982	------------
Ballaciner	Book ISBN 2-07-078484-3	------------	------------	2007	------------
La liberté pour Rêver and La liberté pour parler	------------	Freedom to Dream and Freedom to Speak	Journal and online publication	------------	1997
Sur la lecture comme le vrai voyage	------------	On reading as true travel ISSN 0196-3570	Journal and online publication	------------	1965
Dans la forêt des paradoxes	Online publication	In the forest of paradoxes	Online publication	2008-12-07	2008-12-07
?	------------	In the Eye of the Sun: Mexican Fiestas	Preface to In the Eye of the Sun: Mexican Fiestas entitled "Three Indian Celebrations" ISBN 978-0-393-31584-4	------------	1996-11-01

Travel diaries

Title in French	Publication Form in French	Date of French Publication	Storyline
Voyage à Rodrigues	BOOK (135 pages) ISBN 978-2-07-070382-1	1986	Tells of how family feuds were resolved by recalling the adventure stories his grandfather told in a journey from Mauritius to Rodrigues.
Gens des nuages	BOOK ( 151 pages) ISBN 978-2-07-041216-7	1997	Gens des nuages could be translated as meaning The Cloud People.Jémia is Le Clézio's wife and a Moroccan .Her ancestors were nomad who lived in the desert area. After her grand mother left her country, she never visited the Sahara before the trip. Photographs by Bruno Barbey.
Raga. Approche du continent invisible	BOOK (135 pages) ISBN 978-2-02-089909-3	2006	Travels in the archipelago of Vanuatu (in particular the islands of Port Vila, Ambrym, and Espiritu Santo ).These diaries of journeys in the Pacific offer a glimpse into a way of life which is threatened by globalisation, as well as meditations on the vastness of the sea, in the "continent" which the first visitors did not recognise as a cultural and geographic unity.

Voyage à Rodrigues

Le Clézio, J. M. G. "Voyage a Rodrigues". Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire. Paris: MAGAZINE LITTERAIRE, no. 459, (2006): 83-85. ISSN 0024-9807.

Raga. Approche du continent invisible

Le Clézio, J. M. G. (2006). Raga: approche du continent invisible (in French). Paris: Seuil (Series:Peuples de l'eau). p. 135. ISBN 978-2-02-089909-3.

Collection translations

Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam

Translated by the Author into French

Title	Year	Publisher	Length	Notes
"Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam"	1976	Gallimard, Le Chemin, Paris ISBN 978-0-320-07041-9	201 pages	Mayas--Histoire Mayas--Religion et mythologie Indiens--Mexique--Religion et mythologie Prophéties Mayas--History Mayas--Religion and mythology Indians of Mexico--Religion and mythology Prophecies
"Le Clézio is an expert on early Amerindian mythology and culture and produced a translation of Maya mythology into a French in Les prophéties du Chilam Balam" The Mayan Chilam Balam books are usually collections of disparate texts in which Mayan and Spanish traditions have coalesced and are in the Yucatec Maya language (in European script). Le Clezio ... is a speaker of at least a half-dozen languages, three of which are pre-Columbian, including Maya, which he learned while living in a Yucatecan village during the 1970s. When asked about his devotion to native cultures, Le Clezio replied The dawn of peoples is important because we seem now to be living in the dusk. You have the sense that we are getting near the end "Le Chilam Balam" is a collection of songs, prophecies and calendars kept through oral tradition. These books contain the observations, calendars and prophecies of the seer or magician named Balam, and they are named after their place of origin.

Relation de Michoacan

Translation of "Relación de Michoacan" from medieval Spanish into French. This codex, copied in the years 1539–1540, contains the narration of a Franciscan friar, whom the American historian Dr. Benedict Warren identified as Fray Gerónimo de Alcalá.

Sirandanes

Translated by the Author into French

Title	Year	Publisher	Length	Notes
"Sirandanes"	1988	Seghers, Paris ISBN 2-232-10327-7	93 pages	co-translated by his wife Jémia .
Includes a glossary entitled"Petit lexique de la langue créole et des oiseaux" meaning this glossagy is a small lexicon of a creole language and a guide to birds.

Petit lexique de la langue créole et des oiseaux

References

"Frenchman Le Clezio Wins Nobel Prize in Literature". transparent.com. 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2009. Balaabilou is about an African fisherman who tells children about Balaabilou who saved a beautiful princess named Leila from a horrible death and her entire kingdom from drought
Le Clézio, J. M. G; Illustrated by Axel Safrat (2000). L'enfant de sous le pont (in French). Paris: Gallimard Jeunesse. p. 62. ISBN 2-914471-18-1. (translation) Ali lives under bridges in the middle of cartons. His life will be upset when he discovers a baby abandoned in the middle of winter at the edge of the river. Amina is the name of the baby who becomes the child from under the bridge, whom Ali will try his best to raise.
Treisman, Deborah (October 27, 2008). "FICTION - "The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea"". The New Yorker. No. 74. p. 75. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
Patrick Cooper, Patrick Cooper (2008-10-26). ""The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea" in the latest New Yorker". Retrieved 27 November 2008. You're going to hate the Internet for not having "The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea" in the latest New Yorker for similar reasons
Le Clézio:Translated by Ophelia Fadullon Lizot and Luis Antonio Mañeru. "The Rainy Season". Archived from the original on 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2008-11-26. ...was translated and published in Beyond Paris: Contemporary French Fiction by Cacho Publishing House (1998), with help from the French Embassy in the Philippines, particularly M. Marcel Jouve who did most of the coordination with Editions Gallimard in Paris
"Une Lettre de J.M.G. Le Clézio" (PDF) (in French). 30 April 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
OCLC 8797804
"Freedom to Dream". World Literature Today. 1997. Retrieved 2009-01-16. "Freedom to speak". World Literature Today. 1997. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
OCLC 94471466
Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave (2008-12-07). "Conférence Nobel" (in French). La Fondation Nobel 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2008.The Nobel Foundation 2008 (2008-12-07). "THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2008". Nobel Lecture. THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Voyage à Rodrigues is a novel by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. It follows another novel, Le Chercheur d'or. C'est un voyage sur les traces du grand père de l'auteur. It is a journey in the footsteps of the grandfather of the author. At the turn to pages 44 and 45, includes a sentence of ideas and formulation of the symbolic thought of JMG Le Clézio. An interesting parallel is made between a free ancestors who traveled in a world free of borders and other people of seabirds
British Library Serials/BL Shelfmark: 5333.470000OCLC 203061674
"2006. Raga: Approche du continent invisible" (in French). Oceania Newsletter 49. March 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-16. On dit de l'Océanie qu'elle est le continent invisible. Invisible parce que les voyageurs qui s'y sont aventurés la première fois ne l'ont pas aperçue et, parce qu'aujourd'hui elle reste un lieu sans reconnaissance internationale, un passage, un territoire qui a fait rêver bien des explorateurs qui risquèrent leur vie pour l'atteindre et essayer d'en cartographier les contours. J.M.G. Le Clézio n'avait pas imaginé que le mythe rejoignait la réalité: il découvre l'immensité de l'océan, les myriades d'îles, d'îlots, d'atolls
"SUBJECTS". Les prophéties du Chilam Balam / version et présentation de J. M. G. Le Clézio. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008" (PDF). Speed read: Language as belonging. Nobel Web AB 2008. Nobelprize.org. 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
Watts, Jake. "Peripatetic Nobel with a Heart in Mexico" (PDF). This article is based on a telephone interview with Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio following the announcement of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. the Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-01-07. Le Clézio is an expert on early Amerindian mythology and culture and produced the first ever translation of Indian mythology into a western language in Les prophéties du Chilam Balam. His experience in Panama developed his thinking about the limits of western rationalism and its dangerous devaluation of emotions and spirituality, and also of the natural world.
^ Watts, Jake (2008-11-05). "In his own words: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio". unasletras. Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2008-11-05. "Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio's... affection for the Mayan people induced a French translation of the Prophecies of Chilam Balam.
"Les prophéties du Chilam-Balam version et présentation de J.M.G LE CLEZIO, Ed. Gallimard" (in French). la Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon. 2007-01-10. Archived from the original on 2007-02-23. Retrieved 2009-03-12. ---- Jean-Marie Le Clézio nous propose sa traduction qui s'inspire de traductions des différents manuscrits de Chumayel, Tizimin et Mani ---- (Jean-Marie Le Clézio gives us a version based on various translations of manuscripts of Chumayel, Tizimin and Mani) ---- L'introduction offre une explication très détaillée de la conception du temps chez les Mayas ---- (The introduction provides a very detailed explanation of the concept of time among the Maya) ---- « Parce que le peuple maya avait tout reconnu, y compris sa propre fin, parce qu'il avait traversé le mince écran de la réalité pour contempler le mouvement de l'univers, il est encore présent, et nous sommes à l'intérieur de son regard ---- (The Mayan point of view is pertinent as ever (we can still take their point of view today) because everything that the Mayan people had contemplated (including a contemplation of their own demise) crosses a narrow divide between what reality might be to a contemplation of the movement of the universe. " »
LE CLEZIO, J. M. G. (1985). "La Relation de Michoacan. Le testament d'un peuple in La parole et l'écrit". Le Courrier de l'Unesco (in French). 38 (8): 15–16. ISSN 0304-3118. Force poétique et mémoire indienne dans ce texte écrit vers 1540"La Relation de Michoacan. Le testament d'un peuple in La parole et l'écrit". CAT.INIST. 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
El Escorial, Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo (1999). "Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio". Littérature - Traductions par J.-M. G. Le Clézio (in French). Retrieved 2008-11-05. traduction de l'espagnol
La sirandane est une forme de devinette en langue créole pratiquée à l'Ile Maurice

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v t e Works by J. M. G. Le Clézio
Novels	Le Procès-Verbal Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur Le Livre des fuites Le déluge Terra Amata La Guerre Voyages de l'autre côté Désert Le Chercheur d'or Wandering Star Onitsha La Quarantaine Poisson d'or Hasard suivi de Angoli Mala Fantômes dans la rue Révolutions Ourania Ritournelle de la faim
Essays	"The Mexican Dream" "Conversations avec J. M. G. Le Clézio" "Haï" "Mydriase" "To the Icebergs (Essay on Henri Michaux)" "L'Inconnu sur la Terre" "Trois Villes saintes" "Dans la maison d'Edith" "Sur Lautréamont" "Diego et Frida" "Ailleurs" "Enfances" "Le Llano en flammes" "L'Extase matérielle" ""The African"" "Une lettre de J. M. G. Le Clézio" "Ballaciner" "Freedom to Dream" and "Freedom to Speak" "On Reading as True Travel" "Dans la forêt des paradoxes"
Short stories	"La fièvre" "Mondo et autres histoires" "La Ronde et autres faits divers" "Printemps et autres saisons" "Pawana" "La Fête chantée et autres essais de thème amérindien" "Cœur brûle et autres romances" "Tabataba suivi de pawana"
Books for children	Les Géants Lullaby La Grande Vie Peuple du ciel Balaabilou Villa Aurore L'enfant de sous le pont Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer La montagne ou le dieu vivant Voyage au pays des arbres
Travel diaries	Voyage à Rodrigues Gens des nuages Raga. Approche du continent invisible

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