Mondo et autres histoires

Mondo et autres histoires
Author(s)	J. M. G. Le Clézio
Original title	Mondo et autres histoires
Country	France
Language	French
Genre(s)	Short story collection
Publisher	Gallimard, Paris
Publication date	1978
Pages	379 pp
ISBN	978-2-07-038676-5
OCLC Number	299465126

Mondo et autres histoires is the title of a set of short stories written in French by French author and Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio .

Very visual language in a series of dreamlike settings.

Contents

This collection of short stories is presented in this order:

Mondo

This is a story about a boy who may have had many friends but who never actually had a family of his own.^[1]

La montagne du dieu vivant

Jon takes part in a cycling event and gets to climb a mountain where it seems to Jon that everything is beautiful. In this story the author uses metaphors parallel to the one used by Christ: like when Jon meets a child who speaks as would a prophet.^[1]

La roue d'eau

Jub is the king of a city. The city is described as if it were ancient and it may just be that this city is in ruins because the reader senses being shown a mirage when reading this story.^[1]

Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer

Daniel dreams of the sea and one day he flees school to explore a part of the sea for himself.^[1]

Hazaran

Alia loves Martin, who tells stories about a land called Hazaran, although the latter is a hermit living outside the village. There is a man telling stories and this man guides his community by fasting.^[1]

Peuple du ciel

The People of the sky tells the story of a girl named Petite Croix ,who spends the day sitting on the edge of a cliff and searching for answers to a question: what is blue?^[1].

Peuple du ciel published other than in Mondo et autres histoires

People of the sky and "shepherds" (Les Bergers) are the two novellas that were extracted from "Mondo et autres histoires" and published together, but without the other stories in book form ^[2].

Les bergers

In English the term "shepherds" is the equivalent to the French term "Le Bergers". This is the story of Gaspar, who went missing but discovers fronds and learns how to herd animals as well as the pleasure of having meals around the fire.^[1]

Publication history

First French Edition

• Le Clézio, J. M. G (1978) (in French). Mondo et autres histoires. Paris: Gallimard. pp. 379. ISBN 2-07-038676-7. 

Second French Edition

• Le Clézio, J. M. G (1987) (in French). Mondo et autres histoires. Paris: Gallimard Education. pp. 379. ISBN none. 

Third French Edition

• Le Clézio, J. M. G (1996) (in French). Mondo et autres histoires. Paris: Gallimard Education. pp. 379. 

Fourth French Edition

• Le Clézio, J. M. G; Prefaced by Christophe-Édouard Konaté and with an illustrated presentation by Isabelle Varloteaux (1982) (in French). Mondo Et Autres Histoires (Collection Folio) (French Edition) (Mass Market Paperback). Paris: Gallimard Education. pp. 377. ISBN 978-2-07-037365-9. OCLC 281627788. 12th re-Print Gallimard,Paris 2008 (With new author biography) and 2000 (Reprint: 1982 ed)

Fifth French Edition

• Le Clézio, J. M. G; Prefaced by Christophe-Édouard Konaté and with an illustrated presentation by Isabelle Varloteaux (2006) (in French). Mondo et autres histoires. Paris: Gallimard Education, Folioplus classiques, 67. pp. 377. ISBN 978-2-07-033785-9. 

Sixth French Edition

• Le Clézio, J. M. G (2008 Reprint: 1982 ed. With new author biography) (in French). Mondo et autres histoires. Paris: Gallimard. pp. 310. ISBN 978-2-07-037365-9. 

Mondo for the cinema

"Mondo"is movie in the French language with English subtitles about a 10-year-old gypsy boy.
"Mondo" was co-written and directed by Tony Gatlif based on the short story as written by J. M. G. Le Clézio(1995)^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} "Mondo et autres histoires" (in French). Pralineries. 2008-10-27. http://pralinerie.blogspot.com/2008/10/mondo-et-autres-histoires.html. Retrieved 2009-06-12. 
2. ^ Le Clézio, J. M. G; Illustrated by Georges Lemoine (1990) (in French). La grande vie ;
   suivi de,Peuple du ciel. Paris: Gallimard Jeunesse. pp. 90. ISBN 978-2-07-055179-8. 
3. ^ "Mondo". 1995. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117076/. Retrieved 2008-11-07. "In Gatlif's retelling, Mondo is alienated by the busy consumer society of Nice, France: he is always hiding from city officials who try to arrest him and he feels ill-at-ease in the bustling downtown area."