The Flanders Road: Claude Simon - Softcover

Claude Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714548464 ISBN 13: 9780714548463

Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a distant relative, an orderly and a jockey who had an affair with his wife - remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death. A groundbreaking work, for which Claude Simon devised a prose technique mimicking the mind's flexible thought processes, "The Flanders Road" is not only a masterpiece of stylistic innovation, but also a haunting portrayal - based on a real-life incident - of the chaos and savagery of war.

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Review:

His imagination, working through the controlled riot of words, flames and flares magnificently, and nowhere is he better than in conveying the sense of disintegration that overtook the French in 1940. * The Times *

About the Author:

Born in Madagascar and raised in France, Claude Simon (1913-2005) served in the French Resistance during the Second World War and went on to become one of the leading exponents of the Nouveau Roman, a 1950s movement advocating formal experimentation in fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985.

About this edition

• Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0714548464
• ISBN 13: 9780714548463
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192