Claude Simon: Writing the Visible

by Celia Britton

This is a major study of the Nobel prize-winning French novelist Claude Simon. Simon is a complex figure: for all that he writes in a distinctively modern fictional tradition (exemplified by Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet), his novels contain strong elements of visual representation alongside a very different king of free-floating, anti-realist writing. This combination and tension between vivd representation of experience and the free play...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521114578
• ISBN13: 9780521114578
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"