Have His Books Made You Feel?

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"We no longer have the presumptuousness to believe, as they did in Sartre's day, that a novel can change the world," Le Clézio has said. "Today, writers can only record their political impotence ... Contemporary literature is a literature of despair."

Reference: 'Satre' refers to Jean-Paul Satre who was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature. The French existentialist writer, critic and philosopher rejected it.