Le Livre des fuites

Le Livre des fuites is a 1969 novel by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. The English translation by Simon Watson Taylor, The Book of Flights: An Adventure Story, was published in 1971. The novel concerns the real and imaginary journeys of its hero, Young Man Hogan.
Many of Le Clézio's books were out of print in English when he won the Nobel Prize. The English translations began to be reissued shortly afterwards, including this one.
It belongs to Le Clézio's more experimental phase, together with works such as Terra Amata and Les Géants, "hyper-realistic tales dominated by the fundamental war between cities and nature, between mankind and mythology". In these novels, he developed "a highly original brand of the plotless, characterless novel".