Claude Simon: Adventures in WordsManchester University Press, 2003 M04 19 - 230 pages Claude Simon: Adventures in Words is designed to introduce Simon, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985, to new readers by setting his novels in the context of literary critical debate in France over the last 50 years. Most emphasis is given to peaks in Simon's achievement: The Flanders Road' (1960), The Georgics (1981) and The Acacia (1989). This expanded edition also includes a new chapter on Simon's most recent works, The Jardin des Plantes (1997), and The Tramway (2001). |
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Absalom appears autobiographical Barthes Bataille de Pharsale Blum Britton c'est Cerisy Chapter characters Claude Simon codes coherence colloque contrast conventional Corde raide Corinne Corps conducteurs critical Critique d'autres d'une death deux Earl King example experience fait fantasies father figure fragments French Georges Georges's Georgics Géorgiques hierarchy Histoire Iglésia illusion intertextual Jardin des Plantes Jean Ricardou L'Acacia L'Herbe La Corde raide La Route Lacan language Le Tricheur Leçon de choses Les Géorgiques LesG memory mise en abyme monde Montès mother narrative narrator nouveau roman novelist origin passage past perception Perpignan peut plutôt previous novels Proust qu'il reader reality récit reconstruct referential Reixach relationship representation Ricardou Ricardou's rien Robbe-Grillet Route des Flandres Sacre du printemps Sarraute sense Seuil sexual Simon's fiction Simon's novels story Studies temps themes théorie du nouveau theory tout Tramway Tricheur Triptyque Vent words Writing the Visible