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Claude Simon: A Retrospective

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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 50 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 fo 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. Some essays place more emphasis on the gaps, the incommensurable in Simon's novels, while others explore the transmutation of the visible, tangible, technological world into words and the power of language to link fragmentary sites of memory. The layers of artifice in "Le Jardin des Plantes" and the nature of Simon's aesthetic are analysed in essays which explore intertextual resonances between Simon and Proust, Flaubert, Borges and Poussin. A complementary view of Simon's "Photographies 1937-1970" shows that it too can be seen as a form of indirect autobiography. Does "Le Jardin des Plantes" represent a departure in Simon's work? For some it does, since both structure and occasionally comic tone shows signs of the liquidization of trauma. This sampler of the current state of Simon criticism is completed by a survey of the critical reception of Simon's work since the 1960s.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Message from Claude Simon to Participants at the Conference held in May 1999. Introduction: The Critical Reception of Claude Simon since the 1960's - Jean H. Duffy and Alastair Duncan 1. Thinking History Otherwise: Fiction and the Sites of Memory in Claude Simon - David Carroll 2. (In) Commensurabilities: The Childhood of Events and the Shock of Encounter in Claude Simon - Maria Minich Brewer 3. Instant Replays: The Reintergration of Traumatic Experience in 'Le Jardin des Plantes - Celia Britton 4. The Dynamics of Conflict in the Novels of CLaude Simon - J.A. Loubere 5. Satire, Burlesque and Comedy in Claude Simon - Alastair Duncan 6. The Garden of Forking Paths: Intertextuality and 'Le Jardin des Plantes - Mary Orr 7. A partir du 'Jardin des plantes': Claude Simon's Recapitulations - David Ellison 8. Supplementary Organs: Media and Machinery in the Late Novels of Claude Simon - Wolfram Nitsch 9. One Step Further: Claude SImon's 'Photographies' 1937-1970 - Mireille Calle-Gruber 10. Truth, Verbiage and Ecriture in 'Le Jardin des Plantes' - Jean H. Duffy Bibliography Notes on Contributors

About the Author :
Jean Duffy is Emeritus of French at the University of Edinburgh.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780853238577
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Sub Title: A Retrospective
  • ISBN-10: 085323857X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Width: 163 mm


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