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" Claude Simon : "
edited by Jean H. Duffy and Alastair Duncan.
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BL
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1013028
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b767398
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Claude Simon : : a retrospective /\ edited by Jean H. Duffy and Alastair Duncan.
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| Publication Statement
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Liverpool :: Liverpool University Press,, 2002.
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| Series Statement
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Liverpool Science Fiction Texts
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1 online resource (232 pages)
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1417568100
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: 178138049X
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: 184631285X
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: 9781417568109
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: 9781781380499
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: 9781846312854
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085323857X
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0853238677
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9780853238577
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9780853238676
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-230).
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| Contents
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Message from Claude Simon to participants at the conference held in May 1999 -- Introduction : the critical reception of Claude Simon since the 1960s / Jean H. Duffy and Alastair Duncan -- Thinking history otherwise : fiction and the sites of memory in Claude Simon / David Carroll -- (In)commensurabilities : the childhood of events and the shock of encounter in Claude Simon / Mária Minich Brewer -- Instant replays : the reintegration of traumatic experience in Le jardin des plantes / Celia Britton -- The dynamics of conflict in the novels of Claude Simon / J.A.E. Loubère -- Satire, burlesque, and comedy in Claude Simon / Alastair Duncan -- The garden of forking paths : intertextuality and Le jardin des plantes / Mary Orr -- A partir du Jardin des plantes : Claude Simon's recapitulations / David Ellison -- Supplementary organs : media and machinery in the late novels of Claude Simon / Wolfram Nitsch -- One step further : Claude Simon's Photographies 1937-1970 / Mireille Calle-Gruber -- Truth, verbiage, and écriture in Le jardin des plantes / Jean H. Duffy.
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| Abstract
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This collection of essays 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? contributors 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 L.
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Simon, Claude-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Simon, Claude-- Critique et interprétation
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Simon, Claude, 1913-2005
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Simon, Claude, 1913-2005, Le jardin des plantes
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Simon, Claude.
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French Literature.
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Languages Literatures.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- French.
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Romance Literatures.
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Le jardin des plantes (Simon)
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| Dewey Classification
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843.914
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| LC Classification
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PQ2637.I547Z6235 2002
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18.25bcl
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18.25.bcl
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Duffy, Jean H.
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Duncan, Alastair B.
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