Le Clézio, the métisserrand writer - For a necessary interculturalism

Abstract

If the Nobel Academy accurately introduced the work of Le Clézio as a work of rupture, our aim will be to analyse what in the work of the author characterizes it as an open work, a work of connection because of its reconciliation with the words, with the body, with the ancient times, with myth and old legends. The concept of “between two” is a fully effi cient tool to show the narrative innovations that result from its application: The structure of Le Clézio’s work is established by the use of the “between two” through the application of formal fi gures of the double that give form to the romanesque structure and to the ethical issues of acculturation and of the encounter with alterity (otherness). Thus, Le Clézio’s work is in itself characteristic of our time because despite its unclassifi ed character, it is inscribed in the contemporaneous movement that is concerned with the writing of works of restitution and it is also a work in which the celebration of elements and of music give to it a poetic dimension.