User:Stadtpark/Le déluge

Le déluge is an early fictional work about trouble and fear in major Western cities by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clézio.The hero of the book François Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide.

Plot
Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside.

Motto
As Besson moves through an ugly and threatening rain, his thoughts eventually lead to violence.These thoughts were first turned outward but later directed against himself.