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by Claude Simon Translated by B & J Fletcher Original title: Géorgics
The Georgics, which won Claude Simon the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985, is not an easy book to read. Its sentences, packed with parentheses that themselves contain parentheses and similes so extensively developed that they take over from the scenes and objects they describe, (more...)
by Claude Simon Translated by Jim Cross Original title: L'invitation
This 1987 novel by Nobel Prize-winner Claude Simon is a sardonic look at glasnost Russia, where recent reforms and improvements carry all the conviction of rouge on a corpse. The narrator
is one of fifteen international guests who have been invited on a goodwill tour of the "new" Soviet U (more...)
For English readers used to linear narrative and social realism, Claude Simon’s remarkable technique will come as a revelation. Divided into three sections and dealing with three main narratives — a wedding party, (more...)
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