This book presents a close reading of four texts by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, highlighting the philosophical and ecological role accorded poetic, sensorial expression and the imagination.

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Bronwen Martin is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she has taught for several years. She is the author of books and articles on Le Clézio, European literature, critical discourse analysis and semiotics. She specialises in contemporary literature and philosophy, at the same time exploring the interface between the poetic and the political. Her research has been published in journals and her most recent monograph is The Fiction of J.M.G. Le Clézio: A Postcolonial Reading (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012).

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Contents: Haï - Insects - Bitna, sous le ciel de Séoul - The Story of Dodo.