Claude Simon

Résumé du livre

This Book Aims to introduce new readers to the fiction of Claude Simon, Nobel prize-winner and the most prestigious of France's living novelists. Simon's first novel appeared in 1945, his most recent, The Tramway, in 2001. At the core of his most famous work, The Flanders Road (1960), lies a traumatising experience of war in May 1940. This experience Simon reworks from novel to novel. With it he interweaves memories from childhood to old age, and parallel stories of love and war from the rich past of his family as far back as the French Revolution. Simon's prose unrolls with an epic splendour, but it can also be objective and precise. To the sweeping force of history Simon opposes human endurance and a hallucinatory attention to ordinary sights and sounds which for him, as for Proust or Faulkner, form the living substance of memory.