Haï

Haï
First edition
AuthorJ. M. G. Le Clézio
LanguageFrench
GenreEssay
PublisherEditions d'art Albert Skira,Les Sentiers de la création, Geneva
Publication date
1971
Publication placeFrance
Media typePrint
Pages170
ISBN978-2-605-00112-5
OCLC246772402
LC ClassF1565.3.P45 C54 1987

Haï” is an essay written by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio.

Subject

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Recurrent images are the sun and the sea, light and water. From 1969 to 1973 Le Clézio lived among the Emberá speaking Indians in Panama.[1][2]

Quote

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"But " for the Indian, music has no beginning, no end, no climax[3]

Explanation of "Haï"

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Haï could br translated from French into English as Chai. Chai is a symbol and word that figures prominently in Jewish culture and consists of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet Het (ח) and Yod (י)

Publication history

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First

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  • Haï. Geneva, Switzerland: Editions d'art Albert Skira,Les Sentiers de la création. 1971. ISBN 978-2-605-00112-5.

1971, France,Editions d'art Albert Skira,Les Sentiers de la création, Geneva
ISBN 978-2-605-00112-5

Reprint

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It was reprinted by Flammarion, Paris in 1987.

References

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  1. ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Le Clézio". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 8 December 2008.. Quote: "In the late 1960s and early 1970s he lived among a tribe of Embera Indians in the Panamanian jungle, writing about his experiences"
  2. ^ "Jean-Marie Le Clézio". msn Encarta. ninmsn PTY LTD. 2008. Archived from the original on 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2008-11-20. This essay is a lyrical account of the author's experience which, as he has confessed, changed his whole life. On the whole, the natural environment, animate and inanimate, forms a kind of philosophical, unifying ground for Le Clézio's themes"
  3. ^ Le Clézio (1971). Haï. Skira, Geneva. pp. 51–52. ISBN 0253208521.