Ballaciner Explained
| Ballaciner |
| Title Orig: | Ballaciner |
| Author: | J. M. G. Le Clézio, Gilles Jacob |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Subject: | Cinema |
| Genre: | Essay |
| Publisher: | Editions Gallimard, nrf, Paris |
| Pub Date: | 2007 |
| Pages: | 185 |
| Isbn: | 978-2-07-078484-4 |
| Congress: | PQ2672.E25 Z46 2007 |
| Oclc: | 132401827 |
Ballaciner is an essay by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio with help from Gilles Jacob.[1] It was originally published in French in 2003.
Ballaciner was described [2] by the Nobel committee [3] as:
“Ballaciner” is a French neologism meaning adopting an attitude of a strolling moviegoer.[1]
Themes
"Ballaciner" is mainly an essay about cinema. The essay makes note of the films that have affected the author and makes the connection between literature and cinema. According to a review, the author is "a self-declared cinephile, whose fascination for cinema has always gone hand in hand with his love of literature".[4] Another reviewer noted that this essay "offers penetrating analyses of some of the 'disturbing, unforgettable dreams' conjured up on the cinema screen"[5]
Notes and References
- Web site: Ballaciner. 2009-02-09. Anne-Solange Noble. Gallimard. 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20110711040038/http://www.frenchbooknews.com/detail.php?livre_id=355&categorie_livre=Livre_francais. 2011-07-11. dead.
- News: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. 2009-01-15 . The New York Times . 2009-01-15 . Sarah . Lyall.
- Web site: www.svenskaakademien.se/web/Biobibliographical_notesen_2.aspx?UsePrintableVersion=true . 2009-01-15 . Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio . Svenska Akademiens (The Swedish Academy) . 2008 . third last paragraph . https://web.archive.org/web/20100820081517/http://www.svenskaakademien.se/web/Biobibliographical_notesen_2.aspx?UsePrintableVersion=true . 2010-08-20 . dead .
- News: Ballaciner by J. M. G. Le Clézio. 22 November 2008 . Muriel Zagha . The Times Literary Supplement. 2007-08-10. Continuous with his 1987 essay "La Magie du cinema", in which the novelist defined film as a glimpse of another world, Ballaciner is a suggestive and intensely personal meditation retracing the novelist's love affair with the seventh art . London.
- News: Ballaciner by J. M. G. Le Clézio. 2011-03-17. Muriel Zagha . The Times Literary Supplement. 2007-08-10. A portrait of a cultural sensibility shaped by the 1950s, Ballaciner (Le Clézio's portmanteau of ballade and cine) offers penetrating analyses of some of the "disturbing, unforgettable dreams" conjured up on the cinema screen . London.
