Haï


“Haï” is an essay written by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio.

Subject

Recurrent images are the sun and the sea, light and water. From 1969 to 1973 Le Clézio lived among the Emberá speaking Indians in Panama.

Quote

Explanation of "Haï"

could br translated from French into English as Chai. Chai is a symbol and word that figures prominently in Jewish culture and consists of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet Het and Yod

Publication history

First

1971, France,Editions d'art Albert Skira,Les Sentiers de la création, Geneva

Reprint

It was reprinted by Flammarion, Paris in 1987.