The granting of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1985 to Claude Simon brought worldwide attention to an author whose unique blend of postmodernist, vividly sensorial, and broadly historical writing h...
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Critical Essay by Jacques Guicharnaud
Claude Simon has not reached the magnitude of Butor or Robbe-Grillet, despite the fact that his last two books, Le Vent and L'Herbe, were generally praise...
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Critical Essay by John Sturrock
[It] has remained quite easy to treat Simon as a naturalist, as a novelist who insists on writing about something and has never wholly accepted the generalities or the...
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Critical Essay by J. A. E. LoubÈre
[In Simon's] novels the rich sensuality and luxuriance of physical detail, the delicate arrangement of mass and shadow, the melancholy but often sumpt...
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Critical Essay by Thomas D. O'donnell
[Leçon de choses illustrates] one manifestation of myth in recent French fiction: its displacement from the domain of the novel's content to...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature since
1945:
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2006 Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
2005 Harold Pinter (Britain)
2004 Elfried...
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Claude Simon
Critical Essay by Jacques Guicharnaud
LIST: Nobel Prize for Literature laureates since 1945
