Le Procès-Verbal or The Interrogation is the first novel of 2008 Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio,about a troubled man named Adam Pollo who "struggles to contextualize what he sees" and "to negotiate often disturbing ideas while simultaneously navigating through, for him, life’s absurdity and emptiness".
The novel is about Adam Pollo who is a loner and marginalized from society. His long hair and his beard make him appear a beggar. Pollo is a fo...
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Le Procès-Verbal or The Interrogation is the first novel of 2008 Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio,about a troubled man named Adam Pollo who "struggles to contextualize what he sees" and "to negotiate often disturbing ideas while simultaneously navigating through, for him, life’s absurdity and emptiness".
The novel is about Adam Pollo who is a loner and marginalized from society. His long hair and his beard make him appear a beggar. Pollo is a former student who suffers from amnesia. He does not know whether he was perhaps a deserter from the army or if he has escaped from a psyschiatric ward. Le Clézio wrote:
He breaks into an empty seaside villa. He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scant purchases (of cigarettes, biscuits, or even beer) require. 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...
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