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La fièvre is the title of a set of short stories written in French by French author and Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio and translated into English by Daphne Woodward as Fever and published by Atheneum.According to one reviewer these stories are set in a timeless, spaceless universe .There stories can be read as experimental works.They attempt to portray the human consciousness.

A collection of short stories published after debut novel
His debut novel was the first in a series of descriptions of crisis, which included the short story collection "La fièvre"1965 ( Fever, 1966)

Series
The Swedish Academy on awarding the Nobel prize to Le Clézio  points out these short stories and a novel "Le déluge" 1966("The Flood", 1967) to indicate how the author in his early writings himself pointed out  the trouble and fear reigning in the major Western cities. }}

Mention by the Swedish Academy
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 Bio-bibliography mentions this as one of the books in which in which the author "aludes to his own perception of the trouble and fear reigning in some cities in the western world". Nine impressionistic ‘tales of little madness’. The author explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate.Explores their capability to bring chaos.

Contents
A collection of nine short stories or novellas.

First French language edition
This French language collection of short stories