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This chapter evaluates Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes in comparison with Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths. It offers a literary criticism of Le Jardin des Plantes, and illustrates the inter- and intratextuality by citing the parallelism in the story line, events and symbolism.

This Introduction introduces Claude Simon and his literary creations in the span of sixty years, starting from 1941 when Tricheur was published. The Introduction notes that the chapters in this book contribute in the recollection on the novels of Simon as well as providing critiques on his work. A series of reviews or Simonian criticisms are also outlined in this text. The chapterse here are linked according to themes and offer various perspectives indicative of the formal sophistication in Simon's work.

This chapter offers a literary criticism of Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes. It evaluates the brutal facts and personal recollections of Simon about the war in his writings as he challenges his readers to bring together the literal and the metaphorical and to see the literary text as a locus of convergence-through-dispersal.

This chapter analyses the correlation of Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes to Nicholas Poussin's painting The Plague at Ashdod. The chapter focuses on the thematic similarities of the painting and the novel as a passage from The Plague is properly integrated into the topic and language used in Le Jardin des Plantes.

This chapter offers a literary criticism of Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes. It analyses the writings of Simon in the comedy genre as well as in burlesque and satire. The chapter further notes that the concept of incongruity, self-defence or the psychological aspect as well as the aesthetic feature of humour are critical notions in Simon's works.

This chapter offers a literary criticism of Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes. It discusses Simon's textual representation of the painful war scene and the integration of the other memories in his book. The chapter uses a Freudian method in analyzing the narratives and notes that it is relatively homogenous with the rest of his life.

This chapter offers a literary criticism of Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes. It discusses the depiction of characters in the novel as well as the themes and the figurative representation of events. The chapter also notes Simon's unique writing style in illustrating his childhood memories and in creating multiple realities.

This chapter evaluates the writings of Claude Simon as technology becomes a significant aspect in his themes and figurative language. It points out that Simon presents technology as vital but also detrimental to mankind. In Le Jardin des Plantes, L'Acacia, and Les Georgiques, the chapter further notes Simon's usage of the tape recorder, the railway and the cinema as representation of artefacts in his mentioned writings.

This chapter discusses one of Claude Simon's works, Le Jardin des Plantes. It further notes that Simon' s novels are criticisms of history and history-memory. The chapter also provides critiques of Antoine Compagnon and Pierre Nora as they explain that Simon's writings provides an alternative site of memory and representations of the past.