The Fever— J.M.G. Le Clézio

Before embarking on a journey to discover the paradises relegated by Western civilization, at a time when seeking ecstasy at all costs was advised, the young Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio took up the tools of fiction and explored the various forms that delirium could offer, whether arising from a physical ailment or an incommunicable sensation, in which the presence of night and death seemed to lurk. In *La fièvre*, the most ordinary displacements lead to the dark side of things: each story explores a familiar calamity and with it reveals the deceptive habitat in which modernity traps us.

A wanderer loses his identity in the hell of others. A young man attends to an old woman in the last moments of her life, and is infected by someone else's misfortune. A man is challenged by a mountain. Pain, fatigue, or hallucination—among other altered states of perception—lead to a different way of understanding this reality. With the portrayal of these overwhelming visions, the 2008 Nobel laureate offers nine provocative stories and an untamed critique of contemporary mirages.

No. of Pages: 360

Height: 21.0 / Width: 13.5 / Depth: 430.0