User:Stadtpark/Le Livre des fuites

Le Livre des fuites was written in French by French author and Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio and translated into English as The Book of Flights: An Adventure Story by  Simon Watson Taylor.The intention may have been to pursuehis mock-heroic to make writing coextensive with reality.

Background
Young Man Hogan’s journey begins in the dazzling streets of a nameless necropolis, and leads across fleeting landscapes – deserts, seas, mountains, islands, cities and great plains – to countless entertainments and adventures in four continents.

Subject
According to one review this book is an exploration and a celebration, glittering and exuberant, of the writer’s art and of life itself

Motto
There is no time to lose if, like him, you hold to the view that everything which exists is a sign, with an equal claim to be included in a "text"; and since M. Le Clézio is not asking for help it can only be assumed he is prepared to write the Book of Life single-handed.