The Interrogation
by J.M.G. Le Clézio
Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside villa. He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scanty purchases – cigarettes, biscuits, beer – permit. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other modes of being: through a dog’s eye or a rat’s . . . states of heightened consciousness which build up into a terrifying world of glaring hallucinatory experience.
Then Adam addresses a small crowd in the town. His unnerving rhetoric ends in arrest and removal to an asylum. And there the interrogation begins . . .
With this stunning debut novel Le Clézio was acclaimed as the most exciting figure to appear on the French literary scene since the death of Camus. “The Interrogation“:http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141042923,00.html?strSrchSql=The+Interrogation/The_Interrogation_J.M.G._Le_Clézio still holds the power to grip and astonish today.