Thursday, October 09, 2008
AI's buddies reward each other
The Swedish Academy said Le Clezio from early on "stood out as an ecologically engaged author, an orientation that is accentuated with the novels 'Terra Amata,' 'The Book of Flights,' 'War' and 'The Giants.'"
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Pravda says:
The breakthrough novel establishing him as among France’s leading modern writers is generally held to be “Désert” in 1980, which won a prize from the French Academy. “This work contains magnificent images of a lost culture in the North African desert, contrasted with a depiction of Europe seen through the eyes of unwanted immigrants,” the academy said. “The main character, the Algerian guest worker Lalla, is a utopian antithesis to the ugliness and brutality of European society.”
Yada, yada, yada.
Pepe is the epitome of the New Southern Man. He drives a Prius with a Stars and Bars bumper sticker.
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