Title : Alma - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Book

Summary :

Here are two intersecting stories: that of Jérémie, in search of Raphus cucullatus, alias the bird of nausea, the Mauritian dodo once exterminated by humans, and that of Dominique, alias Dodo, the admirable hobo, born to make people laugh. Their common place is Alma, the former Felsen estate on the island of Mauritius, which modern times have changed into Maya, the land of illusions: "In the garden of the White House the winter sun passes over my face, soon the sun will go out, every evening the sky turns golden yellow. I am on my island, it is not the island of the bad guys, the Armandos, Robinet de Bosses, Escalier, it is not the island of Missié Kestrel or Missié Zan, Missié Hanson, Monique or Véronique, it is Alma, my Alma, Alma of the fields and streams, of the ponds and the black woods, Alma in my heart, Alma in my belly. Everyone can die, pikni, but not you, Artemisia, not you. I remain motionless in the golden sun, my eyes raised to the inside of my head since I cannot sleep, one day my soul will leave through a hole in my head, to go to the sky where the stars are."

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