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| | 2. | [no image] | The Wind
from George Braziller
Price: $8.95
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This is the sort of experimental novel that you can recommend to others only at your own peril. By way of illustrating my point, I will now quote one of the shorter sentences from "The Wind" (tr. Richard Howard): "I remember how the wind blew almost continuously for three months, so that when it did... more info
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| | 3. |  | Jardin des Plantes: A Novel
from Northwestern University Press
Price: $29.95
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"Jardin Des Plantes" is a complex novel, but to me is the most accessible of all of Simon's works. This is an excellent translation, an eminently readable text.
This novel has been a touchstone for other writers such as W.G. Sebald, and it's the structural antecedent for Mike Figgis' film... more info
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| | 5. |  | The Invitation
from Dalkey Archive Press
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A very late novel from "New Novel" hero and Nobel Prize-winner Claude Simon (b. 1913), this is a barely fictionalized account of his trip to Russia in the final days of the Soviet empire. Despite some pointed criticisms of Communism--the author is far from being a "fellow traveler"--this is... more info
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| | 6. |  | The Trolley: A Novel
from New Press
Price: $12.95
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An old man is hospitalized, and while there, in the fog of illness, he recalls his youth: the trolley transporting him to and from school, the beach in the summer, his mother's slow death. Nobel Prize winner Claude Simon, as in other works, is obsessed with memory. In this short elegiac work, the... more info
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| | 8. | [no image] | The Acacia
from Pantheon
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This book takes you from a battlefield search for a father. The trenches of World War 1 France,to the same battlefield with the son now in the same trenches. Written thru the eyes of the young man as he sees it: and how his mind processes the horror it sees. This is a masterpiece,for its brutal... more info
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