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1 online resource (232 pages) |
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Liverpool Science Fiction Texts |
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Liverpool Science Fiction Texts
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Message from Claude Simon to participants at the conference held in May 1999 -- Introduction : the critical reception of Claude Simon since the 1960s / Jean H. Duffy and Alastair Duncan -- Thinking history otherwise : fiction and the sites of memory in Claude Simon / David Carroll -- (In)commensurabilities : the childhood of events and the shock of encounter in Claude Simon / Mária Minich Brewer -- Instant replays : the reintegration of traumatic experience in Le jardin des plantes / Celia Britton -- The dynamics of conflict in the novels of Claude Simon / J.A.E. Loubère -- Satire, burlesque, and comedy in Claude Simon / Alastair Duncan -- The garden of forking paths : intertextuality and Le jardin des plantes / Mary Orr -- A partir du Jardin des plantes : Claude Simon's recapitulations / David Ellison -- Supplementary organs : media and machinery in the late novels of Claude Simon / Wolfram Nitsch -- One step further : Claude Simon's Photographies 1937-1970 / Mireille Calle-Gruber -- Truth, verbiage, and écriture in Le jardin des plantes / Jean H. Duffy |
| Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-230) |
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Simon, Claude -- Criticism and interpretation
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Simon, Claude. |
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Simon, Claude 1913-2005 |
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Simon, Claude 1913-2005 Le jardin des plantes |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Le jardin des plantes (Simon)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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Duffy, Jean H
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Duncan, Alastair B
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| ISBN |
1417568100 |
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9781417568109 |
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9781781380499 |
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178138049X |
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9781846312854 |
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184631285X |
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