Between here and there: a displacement in memory.(The Questing Fictions of J.M.G. Le Clezio) From: World Literature Today | Date: September 22, 1997| Author: Ridon, Jean-Xavier | COPYRIGHT 1997 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio's novels can be interpreted as images of problems of identity because of movement from a particular situation to another and back without knowing where one truly started from. Thus, his characters are often without origin such as the little boy in 'L'inconnu sur la terre' who has no no name nor history, or Lalla in 'Desert' who loses her past because of the death of her mother and her ancestors' culture.

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