Claude Simon : adventures in words
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Claude Simon : adventures in words
Manchester University Press : Distributed by St Martin's Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-197) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study of Claude Simon proposes a reading of Simon's work based on the premise that his novels are as much written adventures as adventures in language. Special attention is paid to the major novels of the 1980s, "The Georgics" and "The Acacia". Simon's development is set in the context of the intellectual and critical debates in which his novels were written and first read, from Jean Ricardou's formalism to post-structuralism, intertextuality and psychoanalytic theory.
Table of Contents
- "La Route des Flandres" - adventure in words
- Ricardou, Simon and "La Bataille de Pharsale"
- hierarchy and coherence - "La Bataille de Pharsale" to "Lecon de choses"
- "Les Georgiques" and intertextuality
- autobiographical fictions - "La Corde raide" to "Les Georgiques"
- phychobiographical fictions - "Le Tricheur" to "Lecon de choses"
- "L'Acacia" - myths of history, family and self.
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