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La fièvre

J. M. G. Le Clézio Original title La fièvre (French, 1965)

La fièvre is the title of a set of short stories written in French by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio and translated into English by Daphne Woodward as Fever and published by Atheneum in the US and Hamish Hamilton in the UK.

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“If you really want to know, I'd rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing's done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”

J. M. G. Le Clézio book La fièvre

La fièvre (1965)

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