Mary Orr
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
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- ...
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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.Less
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.
Jean H. Duffy and Alastair Duncan
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
David Ellison
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
Jean H. Duffy
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
Alastair Duncan
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
Celia Britton
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
Jean H. Duffy and Alastair Duncan (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This book 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 ...
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This book 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 — chapters 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 analyzed in chapters 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.Less
This book 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 — chapters 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 analyzed in chapters 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.
Mária Minich Brewer
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
Wolfram Nitsch
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
David Carroll
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
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 ...
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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.Less
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.