Mireille Calle-Gruber
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter provides a literary criticism of Claude Simon' book Photographies 1937–1970, which presents photograph prints taken from 1937 to 1970. The chapter illustrates Simon's methods as a ...
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This chapter provides a literary criticism of Claude Simon' book Photographies 1937–1970, which presents photograph prints taken from 1937 to 1970. The chapter illustrates Simon's methods as a photographer and evaluates the themes of his novels in connection to the subject of his photographs.Less
This chapter provides a literary criticism of Claude Simon' book Photographies 1937–1970, which presents photograph prints taken from 1937 to 1970. The chapter illustrates Simon's methods as a photographer and evaluates the themes of his novels in connection to the subject of his photographs.
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.
