La Quarantaine

by J.M.G. Le Clézio

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1872. Nineteen years later, Jacques Archambau, a young doctor, embarks on Ava with his wife Suzanne and his brother Leon towards Mauritius, his hometown. There awaits the large extended family that used to expel the father of Jacques and Leon. However, after two cases of cholera reported in the boat, the passengers were forced to land on the island Plate versus Mauritius to move quarantine.

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A família de J. M. G. Le Clézio já havia emigrado para as Ilhas Maurício há cem anos quando seu avô, voltando para casa após uma temporada na França, foi posto em quarentena em uma ilhota nas proximidades. Os dias de isolamento, dos passageiros deixados à própria doença, incompreensão e ódio, marcaram profundamente esse homem, que logo depois deixaria Maurício para sempre.
Em Quarentena, Le Clézio escreve uma história que poderia ter sido, falsas memórias de uma família que se parece muito com a sua, com seus personagens míticos e busca de origens.
Corre el año 1872 cuando en una taberna parisiense irrumpe desafiante el poeta Arthur Rimbaud y amenaza a la clientela. Diecinueve años después, Jacques Archambau, un joven médico que de niño asistió atónito a la tormentosa escena y que ignora cuán ligado se halla su destino al del célebre poeta, embarca en el Ava con su esposa Suzanne y su hermano Léon rumbo a la isla Mauricio, su tierra natal. Allí les espera el gran clan familiar que antaño expulsara al padre de Jacques y Léon. Sin embargo, tras declararse dos casos de cólera en el barco, los pasajeros -un puñado de europeos y multitud de indios contratados para la recolección de la caña de azúcar- se ven obligados a desembarcar en la isla Plate, frente a Mauricio, show more para pasar la cuarentena. Abandonados a su suerte, verán convertirse la paradisiaca isla en un infierno del que no saben si saldrán con vida. Frente a un Jacques perplejo y una Suzanne tal vez ya contagiada, Léon volverá los ojos hacia la isla, hacia la joven y bella india Suryavati. Hacia la vida. show less
Een man op zoek naar de geschiedenis van zijn familie van Franse kolonialen op Mauritius beschrijft het verhaal van een groep immigranten onderweg naar dat eiland die vanwege de pokken in quarantaine wordt geplaatst op een klein eiland voor de kust. Prachtige natuurbeschrijvingen, dramatische liefdesgeschiedenis in een precieze stijl waarin ook de worsteling van een individu met zijn omgeving en de moeilijke omstandigheden weergaloos weergegeven wordt.
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Ben escrit però no l'aconselleria per animar-se en un moment baix.

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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, who was born in Nice, France on April 13, 1940, is usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio. After studying at the University of Bristol in England from 1958 to 1959, he finished his undergraduate degree at Institut d'etudes Litteraires in Nice. In 1964, he received a master's degree from the University of show more Aix-en-Provence with a thesis on Henri Michaux and wrote a doctoral thesis in 1983 on Mexico's early history for the University of Perpignan. He has taught at numerous universities throughout the world and has written around 30 books including novels, essays, and short stories. He received the Prix Renaudot Prize for his novel Le Procès-Verbal in 1963 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title*
La quarantaine
Original title
La quarantaine
Original publication date
1995 (1e édition originale française, Blanche, Gallimard) (1e édition originale française, Blanche, Gallimard)
People/Characters*
Léon Archambau; Jacques Archambau; Arthur Rimbaud
Important places*
Ile Maurice; Ile de la Réunion, France
Original language*
Français
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
843.914Literature & rhetoricFrench & related literaturesFrench fiction1900-20th Century1945-1999
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PQ2672 .E25 .Q37Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesFrench literatureModern literature1961-2000

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