Denying Modernism and Returning to Le Clezio's Desert

Lalla, the young Morrac girl, is the main character of second story of Desert which is the famous novel of Le Clezio. Like most of Le Clezio's heroes, this character lives in the heart of nature where there is no sign of civilization. Lalla always prefers to live in the margin of society and out of the social rules and finally she escapes from anything which threats her freedom. Why does Le Clezio reject the modernity and he is in favour of nature? The aim of the present paper is to instill the innocence and purity of the novel's main character which is in contrast with the concern resulting from violence of the modern world of the present human.The author finds real bliss with the primitive and uncivilized man rather than the civilized one. In this paper, we make an attempt to show why Le Clezio prefers living in the desert to living at big modern cities.