Noble Literary Award winner Le Clézio Contains
the scenery and stories of Seoul
Nobel Prize-winning writer, author translated into the most languages in the world, Le Clézio, a living myth of French literature. He writes about Seoul, Seoul people, and Seoul scenery so familiarly and exquisitely that he does not feel any sense of heterogeneity that a foreign writer wrote. It is the story of our life here right here, under the sky in Seoul.

Since he first visited Korea in 2001, Le Clézio has visited Korea many times and has been interested in and affection for the city of Seoul by being a professor at the Ewha Womans University for a year. He says Seoul is where the best and the worst coexist. If the state of the art facilities and high-rise buildings are the worst for him, the best is the narrow alleys behind the busy streets, the secluded hills, the dignified yet delicately landscaped Bukhansan and the hillside mountains, and the small cafes in Bukhansan and its mountains. He always said that he would write a novel based on Seoul, which is "Shining - Below Seoul Sky".

An exploration of Seoul? JMG Le Clezio

The French writer and the Nobel Literature laureate JMG Le Clezio has a keen interest in Korea and he is not only prompted him to learn and master the Korean language on his own but also inspired his new novel . Bitna: Under the Sky of Seoul is Le Clezio's portrait of Seoul ?, which was replicated in Seoul, could replicate in an intimate familiarity and attention to detail that few non-Korean writers, not to mention non-natives. It is a story of life in the city as it is being lived today.

Five stories tied together in a frame narrative on a single theme
drama about lives and connections that traverse reality and fantasy

The eponymous main character, Bitna, is a nineteen-year-old in the first year at the university, and a recent transplant to Seoul from Jeolla-do, where parents work in the fish market. As it was for Le Clezio, the city is for an unfamiliar, crowded, and lonely place. By chance, Bitna gets a part-time job telling stories to Salome, a woman with an incurable illness who now spends every day at home, waiting to die. Bitna's stories open up a world of adventure for both Bitna and Salome.

Bitna tells Salome five stories in all: the story of Mr. Cho, a retiree who raises pigeons and imagines the home left behind in North Korea during the war as a baby on his mother's back; The story of the mysterious traveler is a mysterious traveler. The story of Naomi, abandoned as a baby, and Hana, the woman who raises her, and their encounter with life and death; the story of the singer Nabi, who rises to stardom but falls victim to the greed and lies of the people around her; and Bitna's own story, about her life in the city and the fear she comes to experience as a result of a faceless stalker. Each story is layered with diverse themes that have attracted the author's interest over the years, including Korea's traditions, religions, history, and cuisine, Through these stories, Le Clezio takes you to the Gyeongbokgung Palace, Cheonggyecheon Stream, Bukhansan Mountain, and the Hangang River. Bitna is in fact a personal account of sorts, interwoven with the writer's own memories of the neighborhoods he has got to know, the people he has met along the way, and the stories they have shared with him.

At a certain point, the reader will discover that the stories in Bitna are intertwined, and they resonate in real ways, whether their substance is true or imagined, fact or fiction. They are stories that reflect the intersecting experiences of all who live, like Bitna, under the Seoul sky.

Seoul,

South Korea is the largest city in Korea. It is located in Seoul, Korea. It is located in Seoul, Korea. Le Clezio masterfully ties the individual stories together into a stirring and lyrical portrayal of the profound human capacity for warmth and compassion. And yet, as is true of the writer's past works, the characters are strangers to sadness. Their lives are plain, unembellished accounts of the feelings of despair, sorrow, estrangement, and frustration that pervade the city and settle into its crevices like layers of dust.

At the same time, the character Salome, who, at the end of her life, has only one to tell the story, and the stories of Bitna, meditations in their own right on life and death, of life and also a possibility of a courage that treasures life and refuses to give up on it. Life, the author seems to say, is something that must be lived to end in cries and fits and shudders and a fierce, constant struggle, until the soul takes its leave. The life that has been thwarted by defeat and disappointment is more luminous, and the future that awaits it brighter.

By Le Clézio

Jean-Marie-Gustave Le Clezio2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, French novelist Le Cléjio!

French novelist Jean-Marie Gustav Le Clézio won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008. The academy evaluated Le Clézio as "the humanity inquiry, the sensual ecstasy, the poetic adventure, the author of the new beginning" and the author conveyed the award testimony with the words "I felt some doubts, fears, and a little joy and joy".

Le Cléggio, known as the 'living myth of modern French paragraphs' and 'the greatest living French writer', was born in Nice, South Africa in 1940. Thanks to my English father and my French mother, I was able to speak English and French freely from my childhood, but I chose French as a "writer language" because I did not think it was occupied by Britain on the island of Mauritius in the French colonies. He studied at the University of Bristol, UK and the University of Nice, France, and received his bachelor's degree from the Institut d'Etudes Litteraires in Nice. After graduating from school, he moved to the US and worked as a teacher. In 1964 he received his master's degree from Liquid Provence University and in 1983 he received his Ph.D.

In 1963, he made his debut at the age of twenty-four with his first work, "The Dictation," winning the French Renowned Literary Prize. He became the first winner of the "Paul Moran Award" Since then, he has shown his works of fiction such as "fever", "flood", "material law" and so on. In 1994, he was chosen as "the greatest living French writer" in a poll by Lire magazine.

Since 1967, he has been staying in Mexico and Panama. He has abandoned the framework of Western thought and pursued a new existence in harmony with nature. This ideological change is the "Three Sacred Cities" of poetic prose, "Azure people" and "golden fish" are high purity. In 1980, he won the Pomorin Literary Award, which was awarded by the French Academy Française for the novel "Desert", a drama and beautifully drawn about the culture and history of desert people. Selected as a winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is still committed to writing, living a life of voluntary exiles between mountains, the sea, the sun and the earth.

Le Clézio is also known as a writer who has visited Korea many times and interacted with the Korean literary circles, and taught French at Ewha Womans University from 2007 to 2008. In his interview, he spoke highly of Korean literature, and he spoke about French culture for the first time, saying that "some people believe that French culture is in decline." French culture has never died, Not at risk of decline "