Alastair B. Duncan

This study of Claude Simon proposes a reading of Simon's work based on the premise that his novels are as much written adventures as adventures in language. Special attention is paid to the major novels of the 1980s, The Georgics and The Acacia. Simon's development is set in the context of the intellectual and critical debates in which his novels were written and first read, from Jean Ricardou's formalism to post-structuralism, intertextuality and psychoanalytic theory.

Adventures in Words

Claude Simon

Jean H. Duffy

This collection of essays celebrates the work of the French Nobel prize-winning novelist Claude Simon. Scholars 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 - chapters 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.

Alastair B. Duncan

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