LeClézio Revisited
And he should be revisited often if this slender collection of stories is any indication.
There is something in this prose that I find fascinating and thrilling, and I'm not yet able to say precisely what it is. It builds in few words an atmosphere.
from "The Escapee"
in The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts
J. M. G. LeClézio
The water of the torrent sparkled in the light. It leapt white and frothy over the smooth stones, flowed down toward the valley amidst tufts of euphorbia and scrawny acacias. Then the sky turned a deeper, almost dark, blue. The two boys shed their worn woolen tunics and bathed, stretching themselves out as the clear water of the torrent ran over their shoulders, into their airs and mouths. Lying flat on their stomachs, they let themselves go sliding gently down over the smooth shingles, laughing.
There is something in this prose that I find fascinating and thrilling, and I'm not yet able to say precisely what it is. It builds in few words an atmosphere.
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