Book description
Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside
villa. He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his
scanty purchases - cigarettes, biscuits, 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 . . .
With this stunning debut novel Le Cl zio was acclaimed as the most
exciting figure to appear on the French literary scene since the death
of Camus. The Interrogation still holds the power to grip and
astonish today.
J. M.G. Le Cl zio was born on 13th April 1940 in Nice. He was
educated at the University College of Nice and at Bristol and London
universities. With his knowledge of English he was able to work closely
with his translator on
The Interrogation
, his first novel, which won the Prix Renaudot in 1963. Since then has
written over thirty highly acclaimed books and was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 2008.
