title: Haï
text: # 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
  
     "But " for the Indian, music has no beginning, no end, no climax
  
  ### Explanation of "Haï"
  
  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 (ח) and Yod (י)
  
  ## Publication history
  
  ### First
  
  * Haï. Geneva, Switzerland: Editions d'art Albert Skira,Les Sentiers de la création. 1971. ISBN 978-2-605-00112-5.
  
  1971, France,Editions d'art Albert Skira,Les Sentiers de la création, Geneva ISBN 978-2-605-00112-5
  
  ### Reprint
  
  It was reprinted by Flammarion, Paris in 1987.
  
  