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Le Procès-Verbal or The Interrogation is the first novel of 2008 Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio.

French
Le Procès-verbal est le premier livre publié par JMG Le Clézio le 13 septembre 1963, à l'âge de 23 ans, aux éditions Gallimard , dans la collection « Le Chemin ».

English
The Minutes is the first book published by JMG Le Clézio on 13 September 1963 at the age of 23, published by Gallimard in the "The Way".

French
Il reçut le Prix Renaudot la même année.

English
He received the Prix Renaudot the same year.

Subject
The novel is about Adam Pollo who is a loner and marginalized out from society. His long hair and his beard make people think he is a beggar. Adam Pollo is an former student who suffers from amnesia does not know whether or not he was ever a deserter from the army or if he had scaped from a psyschiatric ward. Le Clézio wrote: "he was trying to remember something pertaining to what happened ten years ago:maybe a phrase ,maybe a tell-tale sign from the army, maybe a name or a place which would indicate just when it occured and waiting ,waiting (think ,think) come up with where it might have happened.He breaks into an an empty seaside villa .He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scanty purchases (of cigarettes or of biscuits or even beer) permit. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other modes of being: through a dog's eye or a rat's . . . states of heightened consciousness which build up into a terrifying world of glaring hallucinatory experience. Then Adam addresses a small crowd in the town. His unnerving rhetoric ends in arrest and removal to an asylum. And there the interrogation begins . . . ilxor.com wrote that he Interrogation still holds the power to grip and astonish today.

French
Le roman raconte l'histoire d'un jeune homme appelé Adam Pollo, devenu marginal par choix, vivant seul dans une maison abandonnée, aux prises avec le vertige du monde ordinaire.

English
The novel tells the story of a young man named Adam Pollo, became marginal by choice, living alone in an abandoned house, struggling with vertigo the ordinary world.

French
L'histoire commence par un été chaud au Sud de la France.

English
The story begins with a hot summer in the South of France.

French
Adam Pollo vit dans une maison abandonnée sur une colline, à proximité d'une ville.

English
Pollo Adam lives in an abandoned house on a hill near a city.

French
Là, il reste près de la fenêtre à contempler le paysage.

English
There he remains close to the window to contemplate the landscape.

French
Puis, il fréquente les cafés, les plages, les rues.

English
Then he attended cafes, beaches and streets.

French
Une relation le lie à une jeune fille nommée Michèle.

English
A relationship bound to a young girl named Michèle.

French
L'histoire plonge alors dans la description de nombreux faits effectués par Adam : jeu de billards, songeries, consommation de bière dans un café, promenade et rencontres dans la plage, dans les rues.

English
The story then plunges in the description of many facts by Adam: playing billiards, musings, drinking beer in a bar, walks and meetings in the beach, in the streets.

French
A force de vouloir vivre, un jour, il descend dans une avenue, et parle aux individus comme un être hors du commun, faisant passer un message.

English
A force of will to live one day, he descends into an avenue, and speaks to individuals as a being out of the ordinary, bringing a message. Petit à petit, la folie le prend dans le tourbillon infernal urbain.

French
Petit à petit, la folie le prend dans le tourbillon infernal urbain.

English
Gradually, madness takes in the urban hellish vortex.

French
Un jour, à la suite d'un acte, il est emmené par des policiers et se retrouve dans un asile d'aliénés, où il discute avec beaucoup de philosophie divers sujets avec les personnes, dans la salle principale.

English
One day, as a result of an act, it is taken away by police and is in a lunatic asylum, where he discussed with great philosophical issues with various people in the main hall.

French
L'histoire s'achève par la situation triste et désespérée d'Adam Pollo, qui après avoir voulut en vain vivre, a fini par devenir fou et rejeté par la société.

English
The story ends with the sad and desperate situation of Adam Pollo, who, having tried in vain to live, eventually became insane and rejected by society.

How Simon & Schuster got publishing rights to Second Edition
According to Leon Neyfakh the rights director at Gallimard, which publishes Le Clezio's books in French—charged now with the task of finding an American publisher for her client's books—nevertheless liked the idea of staying with Simon & Schuster, and after a lot of negotiation has closed a deal with its president, David Rosenthal, for the 1965 novel The Interrogation. |

Award(s)

 * Written when Le Clézio was 23, this novel was shortlisted for the prix Goncourt.
 * Received the prix Renaudot in 1963.
 * Unsuccessful in the Prix Formentor.

Publication history
7 editions published between 1988 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 766 libraries worldwide

First French language Edition
First published in French in 1963.

Second French language Edition
was re-published in French.

Second English Edition
The Interrogation (Le Procès-Verbal) was first published by Atheneum,New York, but since this edition is now out of print Simon & Schuster,Adult Publishing Group;New York have re-published "The Interrogation" in English