La Ronde et autres faits divers

The reviewer of this book from the New York Times finds the protagonistswho include illegal immigrants, bikers and runaway teenagers of the 11 stories in The Round & Other Cold Hard Facts to be underprivileged although they are residents of a very privileged area: the French Riviera.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/PaperRow-t.html |title= Paperback Row|access-date=2008-12-29 |work=Browsing Books By ELSA DIXLER|publisher=NYTimes |date=2008-12-26 | first=Elsa | last=Dixler}}

The reviewer of this book from Barnes & Noble wrote that even though none of the eleven short-stories are out of the ordinary, the author does however find strange goings on.{{cite web |url=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Round-and-Other-Cold-Hard-Facts/J-M-G-Le-Clezio/e/9780803280076|title= Synopsis, Reviews and Product Details of "The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts"|access-date=2002-09-01|publisher=Barnes & Noble.com|date=2002-09-01}} This reviewer surmises that this collection of stories is uneven and the style of writing can make for monotonous reading.

According to John Pilling writing in the Times Literary Supplement of 1982-10-08 there is insistent use of the present tense used throughout the book that produced in the mind of this reviewer "a kind of literary indigestion". He went on to mention that a person could "fear the snare of thinking that this sort of literary indigestion is therefore good for the person reading!"There reviewer, John Pilling, also noted that for him there was something intriguing ... and exciting about Le Clézio's ability to transform ... social realism through a formal strategy (even though this formal strategy in writing is at odds with the material Le Clézio writes about)

1. sometimes just because the protagonist is lonely
2. maybe has been robbed (injured or raped)
3. some vagabonds try to smuggle across the Italian border
4. two girls run away from home
5. how a child becomes a thief
6. a woman gives birth alone on the carpet of her mobile home
7. a girl is crushed to death by a truck
8. another girl is raped in a communal basement

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Original title in French

• La ronde
• Moloch
• L'échappé
• Ariane
• Villa Aurore
• Le jeu d'Anne
• La grande vie
• Le passeur
• O voleur, voleur, quelle vie est la tienne?
• Orlamonde
• David

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Translated into English

• The Round
• Moloch
• The Escapee
• Ariadne
• Villa Aurora
• Anne's Game
• The Great Life
• The Runner
• O Thief What Is the Life You Lead?
• Yondaland
• David

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• {{cite book|title=La Ronde Et Autres Faits Divers (Le Chemin)|last=Le Clézio|first=J. M. G.|date=1982-04-14|publisher=Gallimard Collections "Le Chemin" "Le Promeneur"+"Folio"|location=Paris|isbn=978-2-07-021395-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/larondeetautresf0000lecl/page/281 281]|url=https://archive.org/details/larondeetautresf0000lecl/page/281|language=fr}}

Also published as La Ronde Et Autres Faits Divers: [Nouvelles] (Le Chemin)

• {{cite book |title=La Ronde Et Autres Faits Divers (Collectin Folio) (Mass Market Paperback) |last= Le Clézio|first= J. M. G. |year=1991 |publisher= Editions Flammarion |location= Paris|isbn=978-2-07-038237-8 |pages=281 |language=fr}}

Also published by Gallimard Education as Ronde Et Autres Faits Divers (La) (Collectin Folio) in a Mass Market Paperback format

• {{cite book |title=La Ronde et Autres Faits Divers |last= Le Clézio|first= J. M. G. |date= 1990-01-01|publisher=Folio Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Incorporated|location= Paris|isbn= 978-2-07-038237-8|pages=281 |language=fr}}

Also published as Ronde Et Autres Faits Divers (La) (Collectin Folio) by Gallimard Education

• {{cite book |title=La Ronde et Autres Faits Divers (Nobel Prize Literature 2008) |last= Le Clézio|first= J. M. G. |date= 1990-10-01|publisher=French & European Pubns|location= Paris|isbn=978-0-8288-3708-8|pages=281 |language=fr}}

• {{cite book |title=The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts|last= Le Clézio|first= J. M. G. |author2=Translated by C. Dickson |publisher=University of Nebraska Press|location= Lincoln, Nebraska, USA|isbn=978-0-8032-2946-4|pages=281 }}

There is a spoken version of "La ronde et autres faits divers"CD & MP3 as read in French by Bernard Giraudeau.{{cite web |url=http://www.cdmail.fr/affich_fich.asp?refcdm=CDM820105 |title=La ronde et autres faits divers (CD MP3) |access-date=17 November 2008 |work=Collection : Ecoutez lire |publisher=cd mail |date=2008-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210170053/http://www.cdmail.fr/affich_fich.asp?refcdm=CDM820105 |archive-date=10 December 2008 |url-status=dead }}

• {{cite book |title=The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts|last= Le Clézio|first= J. M. G. |author2=Translated by C. Dickson |date=2002-09-01 |publisher=Bison Books|location= Lincoln, Nebraska, USA|isbn=978-0-8032-8007-6|pages=214 }}

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