Fever

In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic �tales of little madness�, the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Cl�zio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In �The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain�, a man with toothache spends the night seeking ways to disown his throbbing jaw; in �Fever�, Roch finds his mind transported by sunstroke; while in �A Day of Old Age� little Joseph tries to comprehend the physical suffering of a dying old woman. Set in a timeless, spaceless universe, these experimental and haunting works portray the landscape of the human consciousness with dazzling verbal dexterity and power.