Claude Simon [electronic resource] : A Retrospective
Duffy, Jean H.
Duncan, Alastair.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2002.
This collection of essays celebrates the work of the French Nobel prize-winning novelist Claude Simon. Scholars from France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom reconsider the fifty years of Simon's fiction in the light of his large-scale autobiographical novel Le Jardin des Plantes (1997). From a variety of perspectives - postmodernist, psychoanalytic, aesthetic - contributors reflect on the central paradox of Simon's work: his writing and rewriting of an experience of war so disruptive and traumatic that words can never be adequate to communicate it. The layers of artifice in L
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Message from Claude Simon to the Participants at the Conference held in May 1999; Introduction: The Critical Reception of Claude Simon since the 1960s; 1: Thinking History Otherwise: Fiction and the Sites of Memory in Claude Simon; 2: (In)Commensurabilities: The Childhood of Events and the Shock of Encounter in Claude Simon; 3: Instant Replays: The Reintegration of Traumatic Experience in Le Jardin des Plantes; 4: The Dynamics of Conflict in the Novels of Claude Simon; 5: Satire, Burlesque and Comedy in Claude Simon
6: The Garden of Forking Paths: Intertextuality and Le Jardin des Plantes7: A partir du Jardin des Plantes: Claude Simon's Recapitulations; 8: Supplementary Organs: Media and Machinery in the Late Novels of Claude Simon; 9: One Step Further: Claude Simon's Photographies 1937-1970; 10: Truth, Verbiage and Ecriture in Le Jardin des Plantes; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors
This collection of essays celebrates the work of the French Nobel prize-winning novelist Claude Simon. Scholars from France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom reconsider the fifty years of Simon's fiction in the light of his large-scale autobiographical novel Le Jardin des Plantes (1997). From a variety of perspectives - postmodernist, psychoanalytic, aesthetic - contributors reflect on the central paradox of Simon's work: his writing and rewriting of an experience of war so disruptive and traumatic that words can never be adequate to communicate it. The layers of artifice in L
Includes bibliographical references.
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Simon, Claude
Simon, Claude.
Romance Literatures
Languages & Literatures
French Literature