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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451783003321

Autore

Duffy Jean H

Titolo

Claude Simon [[electronic resource] ] : A Retrospective

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-78138-049-X

1-84631-285-X

1-4175-6810-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts

Altri autori (Persone)

DuncanAlastair

Disciplina

843.914

843/.914

Soggetti

Simon, Claude

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Message from Claude Simon to the Participants at the Conference held in May 1999; Introduction: The Critical Reception of Claude Simon since the 1960's; 1: Thinking History Otherwise: Fiction and the Sites of Memory in Claude Simon; 2: (In)Commensurabilities: The Childhood of Events and the Shock of Encounter in Claude Simon; 3: Instant Replays: The Reintegration of Traumatic Experience in Le Jardin des Plantes; 4: The Dynamics of Conflict in the Novels of Claude Simon; 5: Satire, Burlesque and Comedy in Claude Simon

6: The Garden of Forking Paths: Intertextuality and Le Jardin des Plantes7: A partir du Jardin des Plantes: Claude Simon's Recapitulations; 8: Supplementary Organs: Media and Machinery in the Late Novels of Claude Simon; 9: One Step Further: Claude Simon's Photographies 1937-1970; 10: Truth, Verbiage and Ecriture in Le Jardin des Plantes; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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...

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910891644503321

Titolo

Council of Ministers Resolutions / / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : OECD Publishing

Paris : , : OECD Publishing, , 1967

ISSN

2309-9518

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

380.5

Soggetti

Transport

Transportation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Sommario/riassunto

These reportsĀ  set out the Resolutions and Reports approved by the Council of Ministers of Transport during the year.under review.