La fièvre

Fever

Author	J.M.G. Le Clézio
Original title	La fièvre
Translator	Daphne Woodward
Country	France
Language	French
Genre	Short story collection
Publisher	Gallimard
Publication date	1965
Published in English	1966
Media type	Print
Pages	239 pp
ISBN	978-2-07-072257-0
OCLC	783704

La fièvre is the title of a set of short stories written in French by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio and translated into English by Daphne Woodward as Fever and published by Atheneum.

Contents

A collection of nine short stories or novellas .The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 Bio-bibliography mentions this as one of the books in which the author "alludes to his own perception of the trouble and fear reigning in some cities in the western world".^[1]

• Introductory Letter (by Le Clézio);
• La fièvre (Fever)
• Le jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur(The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain)
• me semble que le bateau se dirige vers lîle (It Seems to Me the Boat is Heading for the Island)
• (Backwards)
• (The Walking Man)
• Martin(Martin)
• (The World is Alive)
• (Then I shall be able to Find Peace and Slumber)
• (A Day of Old Age)

Publication history

First French language edition

This French language collection of short stories

• Le Clézio, J.M.G. (1965). La fièvre (in French). Paris: Éditions GallimardL'Imaginaire. p. 230. ISBN 978-2-07-072257-0.

Second French language edition

• Le Clézio, J.M.G. (1991-04-12). La fièvre (Nouv. éd.) (in French). Paris: Éditions Gallimard. p. 230. ISBN 978-2-07-072257-0.

First English translation

• Le Clézio, J.M.G.; Translated by Daphne Woodward (1966). The Fever. London: Hamish Hamilton. p. 239. OCLC 9858649.

References

1. The Swedish Academy/Nobel prize. "Biobibliographical Notes Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio". Retrieved 2008-11-04.