The Battle of Pharsalus;

CLAUDE SIMON

Literature & Fiction

JONATHAN CAPE.

Provenance; from the personal library of Professor Lloyd Austin, University of Manchester. Series; Methuen's twentieth century French texts. Physical description; xxxi, 183 p. ; 20 cm. Notes; French text, English introduction and notes. 'Le Palace' originally published, Paris , Editions de Minuit, 1962. Bibl. Introduction in English, text in French. Subjects; French fiction. French language - Readers. Fiction in French, (1900-) - Texts (including translations). Genre; Fiction.

Le Palace (Methuen's twentieth century French texts) (French Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

METHUEN

Conducting Bodies

History & Criticism

The Viking Press

The Palace (Calderbooks)

Calder Publications Ltd

The Grass

Genre Fiction

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.

The Flanders Road

The Battle Of Pharsalus

George Braziller

A loosely related series of scenes from the past and the present are combined in a fictional collage

The World About Us

Ontario Review Press

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 Union. Whisked from one staged event to another, from Moscow to Central Asia, enduring hours of rigid Soviet hospitality, the guests react with varying degrees of stupefaction and disgust to a society whose recent renovations ill-disguise a bloody and repressive past. The Invitation is a reminder that although the Cold War may be over, the past cannot and should not be forgotten; the Soviets have a new game to play―diplomacy rather than military force―but Simon voices skepticism in our current era of pro-Soviet sentiment. The chief attraction of The Invitation is Simon’s celebrated style: long, convoluted sentences register the narrator’s impressions, sometimes dragging with fatigue, but always sharpened with sensuous details and spiked with mordant satire. No one is named, but the reader will see through their identities as easily as the narrator sees through the sham of perestroika. This compact masterpiece of political satire concludes with an afterword by Lois Oppenheim, a noted authority on Simon’s work.

The Invitation

Humor & Satire

Dalkey Archive Press

La route des Flandres (French Edition)

Les Edition de Minuit

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