Claude Simon: A Retrospective - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0853238677 ISBN 13 : 9780853238676

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 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 form of indirect autobiography.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jean Duffy is Emeritus of French at the University of Edinburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0853238677
• ISBN 13: 9780853238676
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Duffy Jean H., Duncan Alastair
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible