- Source: Ritournelle de la faim
Ritournelle de la faim (The Same Old Story of Hunger, or The Refrain of Hunger) is a novel written in French by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio.
Plot summary
Set in Paris in the 1930s, it tells the story of Ethel, a young woman who must save herself and her parents, torn by the age's politics and their hatred for each other. The story seems so simple. A narrator who is and is not the author tells the story of a young girl – Ethel Brown – who is and is not the mother of JMG Le Clézio.
= French language text sample
=French language text sample from Ritournelle de la faim can be read online.
Publication history
= Paris: Lire Magazine
=Lire. no. 369, (2008): 64
= First French Edition
=Le Clézio, J. M. G (2008). Ritournelle de la faim (in French). Paris: Gallimard, Collection Blanche. p. 206. ISBN 978-2-07-012283-7.