| Claude Simon: Writing the Visible Contributor(s): Britton, Celia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521114578 ISBN-13: 9780521114578 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: This is a major study of the Nobel prize-winning French novelist Claude Simon. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 843.914 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in French |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.69 lbs) 244 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a major study of the Nobel prize-winning French novelist Claude Simon. Simon is a complex figure: for all that he writes in a distinctively modern fictional tradition (exemplified by Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet), his novels contain strong elements of visual representation alongside a very different king of free-floating, anti-realist writing. This combination and tension between vivd representation of experience and the free play of language is a focus of Dr Britton's book. She exposes the limitations of literary theory in dealing with Simon's novels and reveals how concepts from psychoanalysis can illuminate this problematic juxtaposition of vision and text. |