Jean-Marie Gustave Leclesio was born in 1940 in Nice, the son of an Englishman and a Frenchwoman. His creative fate turned out happily: the Renaudot Prize, the nomination for the Goncourt Prize, the Moran Prize, in 1994 he was recognized as the greatest living author writing in French, and finally, in 2008, the Nobel Prize with the wording "for novelty, poetic quest and sensuality, as well as for the search for humanity beyond the current civilizations." "The Dance of Hunger" (2008) is a novel reflecting on human destinies during the period of historical cataclysms, about the helplessness of a person who finds himself alone with the modern world. Ravel's "Bolero" becomes the musical parallel, background and rhythm of the narration. "This is not just a play, not an ordinary piece of music. This is a story about the story of anger, about hunger.… It's a prophecy that can break the selfish silence of the world." ...The raft got caught in a storm, and the wind of reality carried it further and further – among the debris and debris, carried away by a whirlpool of meaningless events, in the chaos of false news and fake messages, among hatred of strangers, fear of spies, among kitchen gossip, hunger and emptiness, lack of love and pride… History is washed by rivers. They carry away the bodies, and for a very long time their shores remain deserted.