"This book presents a close reading of four texts by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl???ezio, guided by Gilles Deleuze's concept of metamorphosis, 'becoming-animal'. In his critique of anthropocentrism and Western reason, Le Cl???ezio dismantles the opposition between mind and matter, language and life, developing Henri Bergson's notion of the living, 'le vivant'. A philosophical and ecological role is accorded poetic, sensorial expression and the imagination, modes of communication between the multiple forms of life. For instance, ...
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"This book presents a close reading of four texts by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl???ezio, guided by Gilles Deleuze's concept of metamorphosis, 'becoming-animal'. In his critique of anthropocentrism and Western reason, Le Cl???ezio dismantles the opposition between mind and matter, language and life, developing Henri Bergson's notion of the living, 'le vivant'. A philosophical and ecological role is accorded poetic, sensorial expression and the imagination, modes of communication between the multiple forms of life. For instance, the protagonist may become a bird: in their flight they form intercultural relations calling to mind the texts of ???Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau. Importantly, Le Cl???ezio never divorces the poetic from the socio-political. The text Bitna, sous le ciel de S???eoul, for example, unfolds against the background of the war between North and South Korea. Through the figure of the war-traumatised homeless Algerian, B???echir, The Story of Dodo emerges as one of the most powerful critics of nationalism and capitalism ever written"--
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