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The first-person narrative of this adventure, related by one Leon
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In La
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His text explores the process of rupture and exposure that Lévinas valorizes, but it does so in a way that reveals how a female subject, who both welcomes discreetly and imposes herself indiscreetly, challenges what Lévinas calls the "égoïté tragique" of the other
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together with Leon are abandoned in quarantine on l'Ile Plate. The brief framing narrative attempts to recuperate and understand the story of Leon, Jacques, Suzanne, and their frightening adventure.
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fictionalizes the crisis that caused Le Clézio's great-uncle to be erased from family history and depicts the transgenerational effects of that disappearance.
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La Fête chantée et autres essais de thème amérindien
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